On its fifth anniversary, the Open Data Barcamp set a new attendance record, when more than 100 participants from government and civil society came to Hamburg on April 22, 2026 to discuss new trends and developments.
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Data for Society
Climate change, energy crisis, mobility revolution – creating communities that are sustainable and livable requires solid information. If we want to make sound decisions, we need sufficient amounts of well-prepared data. Our project highlights the importance of (open) data for communities and communal life and dismantles the barriers that prevent us from accessing those data.
Mario
Wiedemann
Senior Project Manager
Hannah
Amsbeck
Project Manager
Petra
Beckhoff
Project Assistant
Silke
Hansberg
Senior Project Assistant
Hendrik
Jütte
Project Manager
Bürge
Uprak
Project Manager
Jakob
Weber
Project Manager
Our Data Portals
Number of the Month: 27.1%
Time series data for all districts and independent cities can be accessed here:
Where is the German labor market headed? The employment situation in Germany remains tense, with the industrial sector in particular continuing to be a cause for concern. The share of people working in the sector (mining, manufacturing, energy, construction) who are subject to social insurance contributions has been on a downward trend since 2006. While just under 32 percent of employees worked in the industrial sector in 2006, this figure fell to only 27.1 percent by 2023.
Unsurprisingly, the share of people employed in the service sector exhibits the opposite trend. While in 2006 a good two-thirds (66.9 percent) of all employees in Germany worked in this sector (retail, hospitality, transportation, finance, services, public administration, social services), by 2023 this figure had risen to nearly three-quarters (72.2 percent). Recent developments in German industry are likely to further reinforce this trend toward a service-based society – or lead to a further reduction in jobs.
