Rundfunk MITBESTIMMEN @ Nerd Nite Berlin #17, 2017-06-13

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BmdDEuW-ZA&feature=youtu.be
Event: https://berlin.nerdnite.com/updates/
Website: https://rundfunk-mitbestimmen.de/

Robert Schäfer: Why do I have to pay and don’t get a say? – Democratize public broadcasting

Public broadcasting in Germany receives a massive eight billion euros annually, yet it is subject to little or no public feedback, ranking, or even debate on what constitutes value or quality. We will introduce non-profit tech start-up “Rundfunk MITBESTIMMEN”, an open-source web application where people can say which broadcasts should benefit from their fees. It strives for a digital democracy and competition in public broadcasting as compensation for a tax-like compulsory fee.

Robert is an EmberJS and Ruby on Rails developer from Potsdam. He helps beginners to learn programming and journalists to develop prototypes for innovative formats. At the moment he writes his master thesis at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut.

Transcript

1. @RundfunkMB roschaefer/rundfunk-mitbestimmen www.rundfunk-mitbestimmen.de Rundfunk MITBESTIMMEN
2. Nerd Nite
3. Who is paying?
4. broadcasting fees every year 8,000,000,000 €
5. Free and open access to information Politically and economically independent Grundgesetz Artikel 5 (1): “Jeder hat das Recht, seine Meinung in Wort, Schrift und Bild frei zu äußern und zu verbreiten und sich aus allgemein zugänglichen Quellen ungehindert zu unterrichten. Die Pressefreiheit und die Freiheit der Berichterstattung durch Rundfunk und Film werden gewährleistet. Eine Zensur findet nicht statt.”
6. Why do I have to pay and don’t get a say?
7. Win-win!
8. Payers Broadcasters PROBLEM No Participation No Data
9. Payers Broadcasters SOLUTION Publish interests Evaluate program
10. bridge the gap with technology
11. rundfunk-mitbestimmen.de
13. Tabea Rößner MdB (B90 Grüne) Prof. Christoph Bieber WDR Rundfunkrat Prof. Karola Wille Head of ARD Reactions to Rundfunk MITBESTIMMEN
14. TV Ratings (GfK) Radio Ratings (agma) TV box phone survey 5 000 homes 60 000 people every minute twice a year for sale only reichweiten.de What kind of data is already there?
15. Numbers are powerful … yet there is no usage independent data
16. TV and radio ratings are made to sell advertisements
17. “Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.” Eliyahu M. Goldratt
18. How should public broadcasting behave? How should public broadcasting be measured?
19. @RundfunkMB roschaefer/rundfunk-mitbestimmen www.rundfunk-mitbestimmen.de Feedback!