ABOUT
The New Hanse investigated in collaboration with the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg the relationship between urban digital infrastructures, access to and deployment of data for the public interest; with tangible data-driven pilot projects that addressed real world challenges for the city of Hamburg. The New Hanse aimed to showcase the potential of a citizen centered digital green city in a close collaboration between administration, science, industry and civil society.
With a pilot project in the field of mobility data and by building legal as well as technical instruments to govern these data sources collectively, The New Hanse wanted to create blueprints for other European cities and explore new concepts for the transformative use of data.
The city of Hamburg thereby became a civic laboratory for more democratic and sustainable futures. The intertwined relation between digital and “analog” urban space, the debates and regulation surrounding both provided a starting point for practical as well as theoretical investigations and interventions.
THE NEW INSTITUTE and Francesca Bria designed this project in order to support the city of Hamburg in becoming the European capital of green digital transformation and tell a different story about the futures of (European) cities.
Cities are accelerators of social differentiation, arenas of displacement, "markets of ideas" as well as places for knowledge exchange, political articulation, and trading. In times of crisis, city alliances have historically formed transnational alliances along common strategic and normative lines.
THE NEW INSTITUTE aimed to create a network of progressive digital cities, starting with Hamburg, and connect the past of urban cooperation with an open future: The New Hanse aimed to start a European initiative to support a future-oriented democracy which keeps and crafts its liberal parameters in the digital age.
The goal of the cooperation between THE NEW INSTITUTE and the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg was to work together in the context of an Urban Data Challenge and create a blueprint for a democratic exchange of data for Hamburg and other cities in Germany and Europe.
REPORTS
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The New Hanse final report out now!We are happy to announce the publication of our Blueprint: Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest
Francesca Bria | The New Hanse | News |
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Data sharing between public and private actors in the public interestFrom the City of Hamburg to other European cities: A first (local) legal assessment towards a legal blueprint
Francesca Bria | The New Hanse | News |
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Urban Data Deal for DemocracyHow The New Hanse tries to tackle the question of private-public-people partnership in the digital age. What is the role of data in the digital age? What are prominent ways of governing data? How can we best use data for our common good?
Francesca Bria | Georg Diez | The New Hanse | News |
Questions
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How should we regulate the data generated by private companies in public urban spaces? What belongs to whom and what is the role of citizens, the companies and the public?
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How do we set up the proper incentives for collaboration between actors and ensure a fair impact and a fair share of the externalities and wealth created by those data-based services?
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How do we establish a form of data governance that preserves the digital sovereignty of citizens - and how should we govern relations between the participating actors transparently and democratically?
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How to put in place technical solutions, protocols and digital infrastructures that are privacy-enhancing and protect the (data) rights and the digital sovereignty of citizens?
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Can we find good examples of use of data to face and mitigate the impact of climate change in urban areas?
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The Urban Data Challenge – Reflecting On the JourneyHow can we gain insights into cycling and micromobility flows and the ecosystem in Hamburg to make the city more liveable and sustainable?
Francesca Bria | Lion Rackow | The New Hanse | News |
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Rethinking Data Ownership and ControlA report from our discussion evening at the Hamburger Landesvertretung and our Data Commons Working Group Meeting in Berlin
Francesca Bria | Georg Diez | The New Hanse | News |
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University of Bremen Wins the Urban Data ChallengeThe University of Bremen convinced the jury with its innovative approach of developing an AI-powered analytics dashboard to improve cycling and micromobility in Hamburg.
Francesca Bria | The New Hanse | News |
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Prototyping For DemocracyHow does data sharing for the public good really work?
Francesca Bria | Georg Diez | The New Hanse | News |
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Launch of the Urban Data ChallengeIdeas and solution proposals for data-based improvement of cycling and micromobility wanted.
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and THE NEW INSTITUTE are jointly launching the Urban Data Challenge Hamburg. The goal is to gain new insights into cycling and micromobility flows in Hamburg in order to make the city more livable and sustainable. The best proposed solution will be awarded €40,000.The New Hanse | News |
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A Partnership for the Digital FutureTHE NEW INSTITUTE starts a collaboration with the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
Francesca Bria | Georg Diez | The New Hanse | News |
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The Problem with BlockchainOur program director Francesca Bria talks to Evgeny Morozov about how digital technology can be democratized.
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Data DemocracyFrancesca Bria is the program director of "The New Hanse" and President of the Italian National Innovation Fund.
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Covid and Social ImpactGeoff Mulgan is Professor at UCL and Senior Advisor at THE NEW INSTITUTE
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An Unfolding World – Luisa Neubauer and Geoff Mulgan Discuss the Potential of the Urban Transformation at “Untitled”What will this coming decade be – the ten years, some say, that are essential if we want to change the course of things, tackle climate change before more tipping points are reached.
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Social ImaginationGeoff Mulgan is one of the most curious and constructive thinkers and practitioners around. He used to work in politics, he founded and ran big think tanks...
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Geoff Mulgan – Our TaskCourage is one of the classical virtues. But it is a subtle virtue. Courage can easily spill over into folly or hubris. Yet all communities need at least some people to be courageous, and not just in a martial sense.