Summary
Øystein Åsnes is a Senior Advisor in Norway with 11 years’ experience helping the public sector unlock and govern data, currently working on data sharing and information management at Digitaliseringsdirektoratet. He has a long track record in open data and public sector information dating back to his tenure at Difi where he contributed to data.norge.no, and earlier experience in regional archives and music archiving. Trained as a master’s-level ethnomusicologist, he brings a humanities-informed perspective to technical policy and metadata challenges, blending cultural sensitivity with pragmatic governance. Known for bridging archives, government IT and open-data ecosystems, he focuses on making data discoverable, reusable and responsibly governed across public institutions.
11 years of coding experience
Norwegian University of Science and Technology