Meet the Turboteers: Knut
What makes OpenCorporates strong is the community of talented and committed botwriters and data hunter who volunteer their time to contribute open data. Our bot writers or as we call…
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August 20, 2015
Reflections on Liberating Corporate Data through #FlashHacks
By Rebecca Sentance So far this year, I’ve had the privilege of attending many #FlashHacks events, data liberation hackathons run by OpenCorporates, which runs the world’s largest open companies database. Attending…
July 30, 2015
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Meet the Turboteers – Carlos
What makes OpenCorporates strong is the community of talented and committed botwriters and data hunter swho volunteer their time to contribute open data. Our bot writers or as we call…
April 22, 2015
Civio hosts #FlashHacks event in Madrid
On March 15th, Civio hosted a #FlashHacks event in Madrid to , a data scraping extract & liberate data to feed the Map The Banks project, an Open Corporates initiative…
March 26, 2015
Weekly StandUp #5: What Happened at OpenCorporates
This post is the part of a weekly blogpost series updating you on what’s going on at OpenCorporates this week. Want to help us get more data? Claim a mission!…
March 20, 2015
Join the OpenCorporates Community: Meetups, #FlashHacks & Missions
The time is here for me to finally announce OpenCorporate's Community plan for the upcoming year. We have kept a tight lid on it so far because we have been…
November 19, 2014
#FlashHacks trends at OKFest ’14
Yesterday, the OKFest team launched a beautiful report on numbers, impact and stories associated with this years OKFest in Berlin. It's one of the best reports on the impact of an…
November 7, 2014
#FlashHacks: the start of a crowdscraping movement…
10 million data points crowdscraped in 10 days? When OpenCorporates launched this target just 2 weeks ago, we thought it was challenging but doable. Doable, that is, provided we could reach out…
July 21, 2014
Launching #FlashHacks: a crowdscraping movement to release 10 million data points in 10 days. Are you in?
The success story that is OpenCorporates is very much a team effort – not just the tiny OpenCorporates core team, but the whole open data community, who from the beginning have been…
July 8, 2014