FragDenStaat
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FragDenStaat fights for freedom of information, both in Germany and in the European Union. It consists of an online platform, campaigns, strategic litigation, and investigative journalism. The online platform FragDenStaat.de, the cornerstone of our work, enables people to easily file requests for information to German and EU authorities and automatically publish the results. The platform therefore also acts as a living archive of over 200,000 documents, released into the public domain. The over 100,000 FragDenStaat users are a vital part of our community as they are the ones who filed those numerous information requests. In order to establish FragDenStaat as a movement in the long term, we focus our work on the conception and implementation of effective, topic-specific campaigns that invite people to participate via our platform. In our campaigns we always cooperate with other NGOs in order to promote the opportunities of our approach to civil society partners. In view of ever-increasing resources for the executive branch and, at the same time, shrinking spaces for civil society, we want to use freedom of information as a tool for public control of power and for the self-empowerment of citizens. We are convinced a strong democracy needs an informed and active civil society that can challenge power at eye level. We believe official information should be easily obtained and used. For this purpose, we create and build infrastructure to make information transparent and democratically accessible.
FragDenStaat fights for freedom of information, both in Germany and in the European Union. It consists of an online platform, campaigns, strategic litigation, and investigative journalism. The online platform FragDenStaat.de, the cornerstone of our work, enables people to easily file requests for information to German and EU authorities and automatically publish the results. The platform therefore also acts as a living archive of over 200,000 documents, released into the public domain. The over 100,000 FragDenStaat users are a vital part of our community as they are the ones who filed those numerous information requests. In order to establish FragDenStaat as a movement in the long term, we focus our work on the conception and implementation of effective, topic-specific campaigns that invite people to participate via our platform. In our campaigns we always cooperate with other NGOs in order to promote the opportunities of our approach to civil society partners. In view of ever-increasing resources for the executive branch and, at the same time, shrinking spaces for civil society, we want to use freedom of information as a tool for public control of power and for the self-empowerment of citizens. We are convinced a strong democracy needs an informed and active civil society that can challenge power at eye level. We believe official information should be easily obtained and used. For this purpose, we create and build infrastructure to make information transparent and democratically accessible.
FragDenStaat is mainly financed by donations. Additionally, 2021 Luminate, the Schöpflin Foundation, and the European Climate Foundation were our biggest funders. Smaller tech developments or campaigns are financed by several time-limited project funds as well.
Our annual report: https://fragdenstaat.de/en/about-us/funding/
FragDenStaat fights for freedom of information in Germany and the EU. Whether it's a lobbyist's e-mail, an environmental report or meeting minutes, FragDenStaat helps to make it public based on the Freedom of Information Act. The project’s four pillars are the inquiry platform, participatory campaigns, strategic lawsuits, and investigative research. We rely on close partnerships with journalists, activists, and NGOs. Since 2014 Arne Semsrott , a political scientist and journalist, has been project lead for FragDenStaat at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. For these projects, he accepted the Otto Brenner Award. He is co-initiator of the OpenSCHUFA initiative and has been on the board of LobbyControl since 2018.
FragDenStaat fights for freedom of information in Germany and the EU. Whether it's a lobbyist's e-mail, an environmental report or meeting minutes, FragDenStaat helps to make it public based on the Freedom of Information Act. The project’s four pillars are the inquiry platform, participatory campaigns, strategic lawsuits, and investigative research. We rely on close partnerships with journalists, activists, and NGOs. Since 2014 Arne Semsrott , a political scientist and journalist, has been project lead for FragDenStaat at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. For these projects, he accepted the Otto Brenner Award. He is co-initiator of the OpenSCHUFA initiative and has been on the board of LobbyControl since 2018.