[Open-companies] Crowdsourcing URLs to corporate registries

[Chris Taggart]

Just found another source, which seems to include quite a few not in other
places, including Tunisia (could be interesting), Nigeria, etc

http://corporateregistersforum.org/member-jurisdictions

On 3 August 2011 09:19, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com> wrote:

> James
>
> Really good points. A couple of other resources for finding company
> registries:
>
> This website is pretty good on Europe and the bigger countries:
>
> http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/registers.htm
>
> And there's also the Investigative Dashboard list:
>
> http://www.investigativedashboard.org/category/wwd/text-based-wwd/
>
> Both have their strengths and weaknesses, overlap a fair bit, but also
> with jurisdictions the others don't.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> I should perhaps re-post this again later, but in an email correspondence
>
> with Chris Taggart, we had the idea of putting together a spreadsheet like
>
> mySociety did for its FixMyTransport to crowdsource URLs for corporate
>
> registries. Here's mySociety's blog post and accompanying spreadsheet:
>
>
> http://www.mysociety.org/2011/06/22/fixmytransport-is-close-to-launch-and-we-need-your-help-to-make-it-fantastic/
>
>
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0As0ZKOGBI8TTdGxsSjk2SnNYc2p0WlY5Z1V6V3ByeFE&hl=en&authkey=CLr67P8D#gid=4
>
> I've started collecting metadata on corporate registries on this
> spreadsheet
>
> as a way to track OpenCorporates' progress, which we can use to source a
> new
>
> spreadsheet for crowdsourcing:
>
>
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0As0ZKOGBI8TTdGxsSjk2SnNYc2p0WlY5Z1V6V3ByeFE&hl=en&authkey=CLr67P8D#gid=4
>
> Aside from attribution to the person who did the research, we'd want a
> notes
>
> field for what data is available/how it is made available. One tip I'd
> share
>
> for hard-to-find registries in developing countries is to use the World
>
> Bank's Doing Business project to find the country-specific names for
>
> ministries/registries, for example:
>
>
> http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/botswana/starting-a-business
>
> Cheers!
>
> James
>
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