TICTeC 2020: Transforming an industry through FOI - Stefan Wehrmeyer
Channel: mySociety
Date: 2020-04-02

Stefan Wehrmeyer is a Freedom of Information activist and works as a software engineer on the German FOI portal FragDenStaat at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany.

This presentation was part of mySociety's The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC) held virtually on 24 & 25 March 2020. 

The Q&A for this presentation can be viewed in this separate video: https://youtu.be/028MXwmcXJg

TICTeC 2020 bought together 180 people from over 30 different countries. 

It was the sixth in an annual series of conferences from mySociety, focusing on the impact that civic technology and digital democracy are having upon citizens, decision makers and governments around the world.

To find out more about TICTeC please visit: http://tictec.mysociety.org

Presentation description:

In Germany, although there is a national food safety inspectorate, there’s no requirement for eateries to display the results, and no publicly accessible register.

FragDenStaat’s FOI campaign rallied members of the public to request food safety reports from their local authorities. It’s resulted in 100 court cases, and new legislation around food safety.