Data Stewards Intensive Course in Berlin - 1st Edition
Participants will learn the fundamentals of data stewardship through a 5-day course focused on drafting a data re-use strategy. Participants will be guided through each step of the process, from identifying the demand for data to translating data-driven insights into action. This course is specifically targeted to data practitioners across civil society organizations active in Germany. All lectures and coursework will focus on examples based in Europe.
About the Course
The Data Tank facilitated its first data stewardship bootcamp in Berlin (June 10–14). In collaboration with the Governance Lab and supported by The Bertelsmann Stiftung, the event gathered 14 participants from the social and civil society sector in Germany and beyond.
Faculty & Guest Faculty
Stefaan Verhulst, TDT’s Co-founder & Principal Scientific Advisor led the sessions, that included course material delivered by a pool of data domain experts such as Prof. Ingmar Weber (Saarland University), Martin Waehlisch (UN), Maximilian Von Grafenstein (Law & Innovation), Catherine Vogel (GIZ Data Lab), Alex Hutchison (Data for Children Collaborative), Ramy H’cini & Wassim Kallel (Think-it), Gunda Ehmke & Hans-Christian Mangelsdorf (Federal Foreign Office in Germany & Data Innovation Lab), Christina Willems & Dénes Jäger (Open Knowledge Foundation Germany).
Field Visits
During the bootcamp, together with Possible Germany, we held a quick fire-side chat on data innovation in the public sector in Germany with Khrystyna Shlyakhtovska , Sabine Gerdon (AWS Germany) and Mathias Keller (Possible Germany). Alongside these discussions, we visited the Global Migration Data Analysis Center (IOM) and Wikimedia Germany, where participants could listen to keynote talks, ask questions, and network. The thematic focus for this pilot edition was open data, and all conversations revolved around meaningful re-use of open data and (locked) data towards a faster, responsive, and responsible social & civil society sector in Germany (and beyond).
Interested to learn more? Check out the following video
Faculty
- Stefaan VerhulstCourse Lead
- Prof. Ingmar WeberUniversity of Saarland
- Martin WählischUniversity of Birmingham
- Prof. Dr. Maximilian von GrafensteinHumboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
- Catherine VogelGIZ Data Lab
- Alex HutchisonForr Data
- Ramy HciniThink-It
- Wassim KallelThink-It
- Gunda EhmkeFFO Data Innovation Lab
- Hans-Christian MangelsdorfFederal Foreign Office Germany
- Dénes JägerOpen Knowledge Foundation in Germany
- Christina WillemsOpen Knowledge Foundation in Germany