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FragDenStaat
FragDenStaat is a Berlin and Brussels-based NGO run by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany focused on the right to information. It operates an Internet platform to facilitate freedom of information requests to both German and EU public authorities. The technical platform is supplemented by issue-related campaigns, investigative journalism and strategic lawsuits, which are organized and operated by a project team and often in cooperation with other NGOs or news outlets. FragDenStaat was founded by Stefan Wehrmeyer in August 2011 as a similar project to MySociety's WhatDoTheyKnow. So far, 120,000 users have sent more than 230,000 requests using the platform. Notable campaigns and scoops * NSU Files: A leak of a classified report on neo-Nazi terror attacks that confirmed suspicions about the authorities' failures * Frontex Files: Investigation into secret meetings between EU agency Frontex The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, commonly known as Frontex (from French ''fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Semsrott
Arne Semsrott (born 1988) is a German journalist and activist. He is the director of the freedom of information NGO FragDenStaat and founder of the political initiative Freiheitsfonds that campaigns for decriminalisation of fare-dodging. Education Arne Semsrott studied political science. Career Semsrott attended the Catholic high school Sophie Barat Schule in Hamburg. In school, he founded the satirical Student publication, school newspaper ''Sophie's Underworld'' () together with his older brother, Nico Semsrott at the Hamburg . Its sale was banned on the school grounds by the school's headmistress, though it was continued to be sold from a portable toilet. Semsrott has been working as a freelance journalist since 2008. Between 2010 and 2015, he studied political science in Berlin and Istanbul. Since 2014, he has been director of the freedom of information initiativ FragDenStaat at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, for which he received the Otto Brenner Award in both 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |