The method
What is data donation?
Data donation allows researchers to collect digital traces by asking participants to donate their own data. Interested?
Learn how it works →Open infrastructure for data donation research
Digital trace data, donated by the people it belongs to
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For researchers
Prepare a study
Guidance for preparing your study from design to ethics to FAIR practices.
How to run a study →
Open source
Free, open-source software
Free, open-source tools that collect donated data right in the participant's browser.
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Latest news
More newsData Donation Early Career Network
October 12, 2026
Initially starting out as a PhD network, we broadened our focus to include all early career researchers who are interested in exchange and networking around the topic of data donations.
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D3I and TDCC RIGHTS at the Data Donation Symposium 2026 in Berlin
October 9, 2026
The D3I and TDCC RIGHTS team joined the Data Donation Symposium 2026 in Berlin to discuss the future of data donation research.
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Meet Lennert: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Macroscope Project
October 1, 2026
Lennert is a postdoctoral researcher in the Macroscope project, studying how online media consumption relates to attitudes and behaviors over time through innovative data donation research.
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Workshop Recap: Towards Shared Standards for Data Donation Research
September 21, 2026
On 4 September 2026, the RIGHTS project (NWO TDCC) brought together privacy experts, data stewards, ethics committee members, and researchers at the University of Amsterdam to tackle the legal and ethical challenges of data donation research.
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Data Donation Symposium Program Available
September 8, 2026
The schedule for the 2026 Data Donation symposium has been published, featuring a keynote from Jasper Tjaden, sessions on study design decisions, use of chat bots, handling biases, substantial research, quality and augmentation, and standards/frameworks.
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