DATA ACCESS
BREAKFAST
Join us on 19 May 09:00 am at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin
join us at Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin on the second morning of re:publica 2026
After two successful meetups last year, we are continuing the tradition by opening a space for the data access community to come together and exchange on how to bridge existing divides in order to keep driving the topic forward and further into public discourse.
Data access can play a key role in shaping Europe’s governance, sovereignty, and competitiveness – and yet, it remains largely invisible in mainstream debate outside specific academic and policy circles.
With our community breakfast, we want to provide an intentionally informal and social format, in which to
- showcase ongoing community work with short updates on what everyone has been up to, to raise visibility and inspire collaboration
- Vineet Samuel (CITR) will give an update on the goings on at the Data Access Task Force
- Lejla Podgoršek (AlgorithmWatch) will introduce the second round of the coordinated request for “most viewed content”
- LK Seiling (DSA40 Collaboratory) will provide a short overview of the technical tooling and guidance currently under development
- build connections across research, policy, civil society, and tech
- discuss where the field is heading and what it needs
Who Should Come?
Anyone working on, adjacent to, or curious about data access — researchers, civil society practitioners, policymakers, journalists, technologists.
If you’ve ever cared about who gets to use data, and what that means for democracy in Europe, we’d love to see you.