[okfn-hu] Hungarian company register?

Thu Mar 31 07:52:40 UTC 2011

Hi,
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice is responsible for the Companies'  Registry. It was outsourced to Opten (www.cegtar.hu). They have gained a monopoly for a supposedly reduced digitization fee. The previous gov. ordered to open it up. So you can access basic services behind a captcha wall. Those companies that had sufficient resources employed administrators to retrieve the whole database. Now there is a competition on this market and citizens can access basic information for free. However this database offers only non-authorized information. This is a huge achievement compared to the first 15 years of freedom in Hungary.
http://www.e-cegjegyzek.hu/index.html 

No stakeholder is really interested in providing data for easy access or statistical analysis.

best
David

On 2011.03.31., at 0:18, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Does anyone know anything about the status of the companies registry in Hungary?
> 
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/03/30/bounties-for-scrapers-a-new-approach-to-opening-global-data/
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