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What You Need to Know About Shell Companies and Corruption in the Wake of the ...

Edit Huffington Post 08 Apr 2016
Before I joined OpenCorporates two years ago, I had no experience of working in this transparency space and had to go through a bumpy learning curve before I could start going through regulatory filings to map corporate networks ... If you're into data and want to see what beneficial ownership would look like as data , read this article by Chris of OpenCorporates -- "Every person's guide to Beneficial Ownership/ company control as data"....

Blaze of Sunshine on Secretive Offshore Businesses -- Time for Beneficial Ownership Transparency

Edit Huffington Post 05 Apr 2016
The B Team, along with OpenCorporates, The Web Foundation, ONE, Transparency International, Open Contracting Partnership and Global Witness this week announced plans to create the world's first global public beneficial ownership register to help end this pernicious and unethical practice ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... If you are interested in getting involved in this project, as a government, funder or NGO, please drop hera@opencorporates.com a line ... ....

New Global Register To Shine Light on Anonymous Companies, a Root Cause of Corrupt, Illegal Activities (Global Witness)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
(Source. Global Witness) ... No global system for beneficial ownership transparency currently exists ... Chris Taggart, CEO, OpenCorporates ... The register is being created by a coalition of international organizations, including Global Witness, Open Contracting Partnership, OpenCorporates, The B Team, The Web Foundation, and Transparency International ... Hera Hussain. OpenCorporates ... hera@opencorporates.com ... OpenCorporates, @opencorporates ... (noodl....

Open data can make the world a better place - but only if we know ...

Edit Public Technologies 18 Feb 2016
(Source. Global Witness). Now is a very exciting time to be doing this ... The challenge, as we see it, is to find the right tools and equip the right people so that all this information can be translated into genuine accountability for those in power ... OpenCorporates, the world's largest free database of corporate data, now contains the records of over of 97 million companies from around the world ... (noodl....

How Open Data Helped Uncover Rampant Corruption in Myanmar's Multi-Billion Dollar Jade Industry

Edit Huffington Post 10 Nov 2015
A worker polishes jade in his workshop. Taken by Guillén Pérez, Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0) ... Global Witness used the information OpenCorporates had scraped and turned into open data from Myanmar's official company register to connect powerful elite to the jade trade ... Having this information as open data through OpenCorporates as opposed to a web page or PDF meant Global Witness could run an algorithm to search, mine and match the data ... ....

Open data can unravel the complex dealings of multinationals

Edit The Guardian 11 Aug 2015
Sponsored by.. BT ... Related ... Accounts frame reality ... Open data ... OpenCorporates in London has been a pioneer in this field, creating a global unique identifier system to make it easier to map corporations. Groups like OpenOil in Berlin are now using the OpenCorporates classification system to map companies like BP ... In 2014 Sedex Global announced work on an open supply chain platform in partnership with the World Bank and OpenCorporates ... ....

Five ways open data can boost democracy around the world

Edit The Guardian 20 Feb 2015
Want fairer taxes, less corporate lobbying and more open politicians? Here’s how open data can help. Chart of pollution sources around Beijing. Photograph. Greenpeace China/Greenpeace China Sponsored by.. EY. Jonathan Gray. director of policy and research, Open Knowledge. Friday 20 February 2015 12.18 GMT Last modified on Friday 20 February 2015 12.49 GMT ... 1. Fairer taxes Map of banks. Photograph. opencorporates.com ... 2 ... http.//znasichdani.sk/ ... 3 ... ....

Corruption foe who exposed blood diamonds targets shell companies in her latest fight

Edit Canberra Times 12 Sep 2014
Billionaire investor George Soros is one of the backers of Charmian Gooch's anti-corruption organisation that is campaigning for more transparency ... Charmian Gooch couldn't have said it better herself ... 'Massive failure' ... New Zealand is the only country around the globe that makes shareholder data available to the public, according to OpenCorporates, a London-based group that maintains an extensive database on companies ... 'Human rights' ... ....

Kick the data secrecy habit and everyone wins

Edit New Scientist 18 Nov 2013
Freely available information has the power to make and save money and enhance our daily life, says Nigel Shadbolt of the Open Data Institute. Editorial. "Don't let internet firms hoard the wealth of big data". Organisations making their data available to all seems "nice", but does it have real value? ... The institute is a year old ... Our start-up OpenCorporates has created an open database of 49 million companies and the links between them....

Ten digital social innovators to watch

Edit The Guardian 13 Nov 2013
Chris Taggart, founder, OpenCorporates @CountCulture. OpenCorporates was founded in 2010 by Chris Taggart and Rob McKinnon to make information about companies and the corporate world more transparent and accessible. OpenCorporates does ... OpenCorporates has grown to become the largest open database of companies in the world, with data on 60m companies....

Campaigners challenge Cameron to keep promise to tackle company secrecy (Global Witness)

Edit noodls 24 Oct 2013
(Source. Global Witness) ... Chris Taggart, Co-Founder & CEO, OpenCorporates said ... / Ends. Contact. Robert Palmer, Global Witness, 07545 645406; Rachel Baird, Christian Aid, 0207 523 2446; Chris Taggart, OpenCorporates, 0771 306 7285; Amy Barry, Open Knowledge Foundation, 07980 664397. Signatories. Christian Aid, Global Witness, Financial Transparency Coalition, OpenCorporates, Open Knowledge Foundation, Tax Justice Network, Tax Research LLP....
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