How to organise a scan party

Instructions for a scan party: the objective, how to organise it, the resources at your disposal, we tell you all about it!

By the way, what is a “scan party”?

It’s participatory science in action! More concretely, it is the participatory collection + entry of food products data on the largest open food database in the world – Open Food Facts!

Why take part in the project?

Open Food Facts is first and foremost a collaborative citizen project that relies on thousands of committed consumers around the world to add food product data to its database. As a free and open digital commons, the database is then accessible to all and allows for many useful reuses, from scientific research to various apps. Without its contributors, this “Wikipedia of food” would not exist and would not have the same impact.