Danny Lämmerhirt

Danny Lämmerhirt is an ethnographer of digital data with an interest in public participation and critical data practices. Currently he is a PhD candidate at the University of Siegen, Germany. His dissertation examines how health data sharing platforms use data donations to turn personal data into ‘valuable’ resources and how notions of ‘value’ are constructed and contested. Danny was research lead at the Open Knowledge Foundation and assistant researcher with the Fraunhofer Society and at the University of Amsterdam.