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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...
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Towards a global lookup service for corporate ids
We’ve often stated that the goal of OpenCorporates is simple (but huge): to create an openly licensed database containing every corporate legal entity in the world, and provide open URI ids for them....
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Norway becomes first OGP country to open its company data… and Belgium...
A couple of months ago, OpenCorporates published our report on access to company data in Open Government Partnership countries, which was pretty dire, with the countries scoring an average of just 21...
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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...
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Are DUNS numbers the crack cocaine of ID systems (and is the UK the latest...
Last month the US General Accounting Office, produced an excellent report on the use of Dun & Bradstreet’s proprietary DUNS ID system by the Federal Government, specifically the GSA, its...
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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...
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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...
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Corruption, corporate transparency, open data & business models: OKFest...
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...
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Announcing version 0.2 of the OpenCorporates API
We’re pleased to announce the new version of our API (version 0.2), with some significant enhancements and improvements. In particular, you can now search the 39 million company directors and officers...
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Major Milestone: Over 50 million companies (& a sneak peak at the future)
TLDR: OpenCorporates smashes through the 50 million companies mark, and starts work mapping corporate networks. We’re pleased to announce that this weekend we smashed through the 50 million companies...
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What makes a good company register? Part 1: The public purpose
This is the first in a series of posts on company registers – why they exist, what they should do, and how they should do it, based on OpenCorporates’ interactions with over 70 of them. Over the past...
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Open company data on the rise: featuring G8, World Bank, EITI…
This month has been a good month for open corporate data, with a number of significant developments, all of them positive, and OpenCorporates is proud to have played a significant part in many of them....
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Announcing open corporate network data: not just good, but better
We’ve often heard company hierarchies and networks referred to as the Holy Grail of business information. That’s not just a recognition of the value and importance of this data. It’s also that it’s...
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4 million New York companies pushes OpenCorporates through the 60 million mark
Yesterday, OpenCorporates hit the 60 million company mark, with the addition of some new jurisdictions, big and small. The most notable is New York State, with the addition of over 4 million active...
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Open data: Not just good, but better too
Here’s our keynote presentation we gave a couple of days ago at this year’s Open Knowledge Conference, in Geneva (CC-licensed, of course): The event was really excellent, and we met so many good people...
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Access to company data in OGP countries: some progress but still very poor
Today, just before the annual meeting of the Open Government Partnership in London, we’ve updated the Open Company Index – OpenCorporates‘ review of access to company data in OGP countries, in...
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British PM gets it: good business requires good, open data
Today, at the Open Government Partnership meeting in London, David Cameron, the UK Prime Minister, has announced that the UK government is going to make the new register of company beneficial ownership...
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Another UK company data milestone: Accounts as open data
Update: In record time we’ve starting importing Companies House XBRL data, and extracting the key financial figures from it (you can also click through to the underlying accounts themselves). It will...
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Announcing Open LEIs: a user-friendly interface to the Legal Entity...
Today, OpenCorporates announces a new sister website, Open LEIs, a user-friendly interface on the emerging Global Legal Entity Identifier System. At this point many, possibly most, of you will be...
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New API version released: corporate networks, accounts, and more
We’re proud to announce that version 0.3 of the OpenCorporates API is now live, with many, many new features, improvements (and even a few bug fixes). Along the way, we’ve also given it a visual...
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