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

[Paola Di Maio]

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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