Aug 24, 2020Personal data, public data, privacy & power: GDPR & company dataOfficial company data is hard to access as data in many EU countries, most notably Spain, Italy and Germany, as our recent report on access to company data in the EU, ‘EU Company Data: State of the Union 2020’, highlighted. …Access To Eu Company Data7 min read
Jul 16, 2020Access to EU company data: the good, the bad & the uglyJust how much does access to company data vary across EU member states? The last report on access to company data in the EU was published by OpenCorporates in 2012, when the average score was 23 out of 100. Since then there have been some significant changes, both in the…European Union6 min read
Jul 9, 2020Corruption, crime, Covid-19 recovery… 5 more ways closed company data harms the EUOfficial company data is difficult to access as data in many EU countries, most notably Spain, Italy and Germany. …European Union4 min read
Jun 17, 20205 ways closed company data undermines the EUJust how damaging is closed company data? The European Union is a great example of how it really undermines public policy, disadvantages business and widens inequalities. …Eu4 min read
Oct 24, 2018Fireflies and algorithms — the coming explosion of companiesCompany formation has, so far, been relatively unaltered by the data revolution. But change is coming, and will likely create a massive increase in the speed, number and complexity of companies, all powered by automation of company formation, and driven by demand from new technologies. As with the shift from…Blockchain18 min read
Published in OpenCorporates·Feb 13, 2018Impact Report 2017It was another momentous year for OpenCorporates. Over the course of 2017 we laid the foundations to secure our public mission for the long term, advanced our relentless campaigns, and of course continued the complex work of opening and cleaning up company data. …Open Data8 min read
Jan 25, 2018New Feature: Global Industry CodesOpenCorporates is proud to announce our latest feature, global industry codes! While we’ve long collected data for industry codes for a number of jurisdictions (including the UK, France, Norway, even a few US states), we recently finished mapping multiple industry codes to the UN’s international standard for such codes, ISIC…5 min read
Published in OpenCorporates·Jan 15, 2018Introducing Corporate Events — timeline data for companiesWe live in a corporate world — companies are involved with everything we do, yet the disparity between the availability of personal and company information is striking. We see the timeline of significant (and not so significant) events of our friends in social network feeds every day. …Open Data3 min read
Jan 8, 2018Meet…Jade CroucherHello. Tell us about who you are & what your role is at OpenCorporates. I’ve joined the OpenCorporates team as an Account Manager. I will be working to support and grow OpenCorporates corporate clients to support the public mission of the organisation as much as possible. I’ve spent the last…Open Data2 min read
Published in OpenCorporates·Jan 2, 2018Reading List: Data JournalismWith new members joining OpenCorporates and the wider open data community, we get many requests for suggested reading. So, we’ve created a very long reading list and divided it into themes — we’ll share this bit by bit in the coming weeks. …Journalism2 min read
