Stéphane Gigandet
Open Food Facts
Founder and President
France
Title proposal: Open food facts and open beauty facts: crowdsourcing data of public interest from the private sector.
Biography: Stéphane Gigandet is the founder of the collaborative, free and open food products database Open Food Facts. Since 2012, 4000 contributors have opened the data (ingredients, nutrition facts etc.) for close to 100 000 food and beauty products. The data is published under the Open Database Licence (ODbL) and has been reused in dozens of apps and services, and in public health studies