I am working part-time for the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF), since 2010. I am Chairman of the German Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation and Project Coordinator for the Open Definition as well as Coordinator of the Working Group on Open Government Data and the Working Group on Open Data in the EU. I am also co-founder of Open Data Network, a non-profit advocacy organisation to promote the Open Data, Open Government and Transparency in Germany, the EU and beyond. Since 2011 I am Editor of the ePSI platform. My academic work surrounds political science, computer science and communication science in Frankfurt and Berlin. In 2010 and 2011 I worked as a Research Associate at Technical University Berlin, Department of Internet and Society. More about me at www-ddie.me