EIJC17 & Dataharvest

”Wobbing like a Norwegian” with a state provided online archive or using FOI-tools provided by journalists and activists is an opportunity to make FOI requests easier for citizens. While the Norwegian state authorities provide searchable document lists online with the necessary underlying server power to serve all their citizens, in other countries and on Norwegian regional level journalists or transparency advocates provide online tools to request access. At this workshop four such tools will be introduced and it will be discussed when and how they are useful to journalists and what to watch out for. Browse them here https://oep.no/?lang=en, http://innsyn.no/, https://www.asktheeu.org/, https://fragdenstaat.de/ The Norwegian tools will be provided by Tarjej Leer-Salvesen, who uses the state document register and – in lack of a regional register – built one himself on behalf of his regional newspaper, it is called Innsyn.no and could be replicated in other countries if necessary. Olivier Hoedemann is a Brussels-based lobbywatcher with long experience in using FOIs in his native Netherlands and the EU including bringing EU-legislation to the European Court of Justice, he has tested AskTheEU often enough to share his tactical considerations. Stefan Wehrmeyer is a datajournalist with German investigative journalism centre Correctiv and one of the co-founders of German FOI-tool FragDenStaat.