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- @TravelexUK staff that wd rather carry on conversation than serve customer & then mutter 'Jesus' under their breath when I refuse 2b upsold 6 hours ago
- Incredibly unpleasant @TravelexUK staff at Heathrow T1. Rude as well as a ripoff. 7 hours ago
- @nickdjones We'll be looking to add NZ Companies House (which is the most open of all company registers) & other jurisdictions in the future 2 days ago
- RT @RRHunja: “@WorldBank: World Bank Managing Director Caroline Anstey's remarks at #G8TTT : bit.ly/19Do16o” #OpenContracting @open… 3 days ago
- RT @OKFN: Great to hear at #G8TTT that @RioTinto publish tax payments >1m riotinto.com/documents/RioT… BUT look not to be #OpenData - its PDF, no… 3 days ago
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Corruption, corporate transparency, open data & business models: OKFest presentations
For those who weren’t able to make the Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki, here are OpenCorporates‘ two presentations. The first was Open Data: What’s In It For Business? and focuses on how businesses can get benefit from publishing open data, and … Continue reading
Stop Press: UK to open up company director information
This just in: UK Companies House has just announced that access to company appointments data will be free of charge from October 1. This is fantastic news and moves the UK closer to the fully free situation of New Zealand, … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, companies, corporate, corporate governance, directors, officers, opendata
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OpenCorporates at OKFestival 2012
This next week the open data community will be descending on Helsinki for the Open Knowledge Festival, a week-long series of events celebrating open knowledge in all fields. OpenCorporates is really excited to be presenting here, having previously presented at last year’s … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, conferences, corporate governance, corruption, open data, opendata, presentations
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Access to EU company data is very poor, Neelie
Two months ago, OpenCorporates published our ground-breaking report on access to company data in Open Government Partnership countries. The results were not good, with an average score of just 21 out of 100. Following this, Neelie Kroes, the EU Vice-President in … Continue reading
How open is company data in Open Government Partnership countries?
Today, the day before the Open Government Partnership meeting starts in Brasilia, OpenCorporates is publishing a major new report into access to company data in OGP countries, and the picture is not good. Out of a total of a possible 100 … Continue reading
Announcing the OpenCorporates Advisory Board… governance with teeth
Right from the word go, we wanted OpenCorporates to be a different kind of organisation, and we had three core goals we wanted to achieve. First, we wanted it to have as its central mission the opening of company data for … Continue reading
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Tagged advisory board, corporate governance, governance, open data, opencorporates, opendata, principles
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Corporate confidentiality, company relationships, and why this ‘competitive advantage’ is anti-competitive
Last week OpenCorporates was in Basel at the Financial Stability Board‘s workshop on Global Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) for corporate entities, as a member of the advisory panel. It’s worth giving a sentence or two’s background here for those who aren’t … Continue reading
OpenCorporates: The directors’ cut
One of the most often requested features for OpenCorporates, especially by journalists, is for us to extract information about the directors and officers for the over 35 million companies we’ve opened up. And as Alex Howard reported on O’Reilly Radar … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, companies, corporate, corporate governance, corporations, directors, officers, open data, opendata, uk
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The OpenCorporates principles: What we do and how we do it
From the beginning it’s been our goal that OpenCorporates isn’t just another business data service. We’ve got no interest in being a more modern Bloomberg or Dun & Bradstreet – the goal here is not improve on what they do, but to … Continue reading
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Tagged companies, corporate governance, corporations, open data, opendata, principles, rights
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Our response to the EU Corporate Governance Green Paper
The consultation for the EU Corporate Governance Green Paper closes today. Didn’t know know there was one? No, neither did we till a week ago, and even then it was pretty much by accident. Given the tight timing, and the fact … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, companies, consultation, corporate, corporate governance, corporations, EU, multinationals, open data, opendata
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