[euopendata] [open-government] The Closed World of Company Data

Wed Apr 18 12:27:26 UTC 2012

Paolo
The methodology/scoring is in the full report:
http://www.access-info.org/documents/images/Closed_World_Company_Data.pdf
Links in report also to underlying (open) data.
Chris

On 18 April 2012 13:15, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chris, Helen
>
> very useful work, thanks for sharing
>
>  I d like to write a post about it but need
> to understand a bit more
>
> is there more info on the scoring methodology?
>
> how were the 100 points worked out, based on what criteria
> how do we know its a valid benchmark? has the methodology
> been validated in some way?
>
> cheers
>
> PDM
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> We actually cite New Zealand in the report as an example of a country
>> that's doing it right. I'd probably score them 90-95, mainly down to the
>> licence.
>>
>> The info on NZ companies on OpenCorporates was actually scraped, but
>> we've now been given an API key (there's no fee, though you have to go
>> through a few hoops to get one), but they are transitioning between the old
>> SOAP API to a new REST one, which uses a fairly complex authentication
>> system. We've done the code for it, but the error message are a bit vague.
>> We'll definitely sort it out, but it had to be put on one side for a little
>> while. Aiming to get it working next month, and then we'll have all the
>> directors info, and other stuff.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Chris
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>>
>>
>> On 18 April 2012 11:43, Andrew Ecclestone <andrew at ecclestone.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It is a great shame that New Zealand is not a member of the OGP.  It has
>>> a lot more to offer, as well as much to learn.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On 18 Apr 2012, at 10:38 PM, Jonathan Hunt wrote:
>>>
>>> On 18/04/2012, at 10:02 PM, Helen Darbishire wrote:
>>> > OpenCorporates’ report, “The Closed World of Company Data” finds that
>>> of 55 countries surveyed, the average score for public access to the
>>> company register is just 21 out of 100 points. The UK scored highest by a
>>> long way with 70 points out of 100, followed by the Czech Republic with 50
>>> points, with the Slovak Republic and Albania (45 points each) also giving
>>> good public access to companies registers.
>>>
>>> This is a useful report and thank you Helen for making it available.
>>>
>>> It's a shame New Zealand is not a member of OGP so was not considered
>>> for the report.
>>>
>>> Based on a quick examination of http://www.business.govt.nz/companies,
>>> my quick assessment is that NZ would score along the lines of:
>>> Free & open search (30): 30
>>> Licensing Open: 15 (out of 30, personal and in-house use allowed,
>>> non-commercial and derivatives not mentioned)
>>> Available as (open) data: 0 (but perhaps 20 depending on the source for
>>> http://opencorporates.com/companies/nz )
>>> Directors information: 10
>>> Statutory findings: 10
>>> Shareholders information: 10
>>> Total (out of 100 points): 75-95
>>>
>>> BTW, there seems to be an error in the scoring since the total available
>>> points sum to 110.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Jonathan
>>>
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