[open-government] ANN: World Bank/OpenCorporates webcast: The Closed World of Company Data: Wed, April 25, 12:30 - 2:30 pm EDT

Tue Apr 24 02:49:01 UTC 2012

Indeed, everyone is welcome in person or via live webcast. Let me know if interested to participate.    

We will put all details at opendta.org

Sent from a wireless handheld. Please excuse brevity. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Taggart [countculture at gmail.com]
Sent: 04/24/2012 01:25 AM GMT
To: Open Government WG List <open-government at lists.okfn.org>
Subject: [open-government] ANN: World Bank/OpenCorporates webcast: The Closed World of Company Data: Wed, April 25, 12:30 - 2:30 pm EDT

Thought the list might be interested in this event the World Bank is
running on Wednesday. If anyone is in DC for Transparency Camp, please do
come along.
Chris

*The Closed World of Company Data:*
*How Can Open Data on Companies Change the World?*

*Co-sponsored by DEC and SDV *

Wednesday, April 25 | 12:30-2:30 pm | J Auditorium (J1-050)

*Live Webstreaming** will be available from 12:30 PM*
*Follow the conversation on Twitter: #OpenDTA*
*This event is open to external audience*
*Open data in the corporate world: Why is it important? Where are the
problems? How do we solve them?*

We live in an data-driven and corporate world, with the corporate
structures becoming increasingly complex, and corporate governance becoming
increasingly weak. From corruption to jurisdiction shopping, money
laundering to the extractive industries, tax evasion to political
influence, the ability and incentives for companies to be used as a vehicle
for bad rather than good has never been greater.

Yet the ability of civil society, journalists, anti-corruption
investigators, and  governments to understand this still is massively
hampered by lack of access to even the most basic types of company data. As
a new report, *The Closed World of Company
Data*<http://www.access-info.org/documents/images/Closed_World_Company_Data.pdf>
published
last week by OpenCorporates, <http://opencorporates.com/> makes it clear -
this is true even of countries that are members of the Open Government
Partnership <http://www.opengovpartnership.org/> (OGP), one of whose 5
grand goals is "Increasing Corporate Accountability".

On average OGP countries scored just 21 out of a possible 100 points when
rated upon open access to data held by company registers (including Spain,
Greece and Brazil scoring zero). This event will analyze the importance of
open data in corporate world - where the problems are and how we solve them
- and its implications to our development work.

*Moderator:*

   - *Samia Melhem*, *Senior Operations Officer, TWICT*

*Speaker:*

   - *Chris Taggart*, *Co-Founder, **OpenCorporates*<http://opencorporates.com/>
   Chris Taggart is the co-founder of OpenCorporates, the largest open
   database of companies in the world. Just 15 months old, OpenCorporates has
   grown to over 40 million companies in over 50 jurisdictions, and is also
   working with many governmental organizations to improve access and quality
   of company  data (for example, they are on the Financial Stability Board's
   advisory panel on G-20 Global Legal Entity Identifier program).

*Discussants:*

   - *Tariq Khokhar**, Open Data Evangelist, DEC*
   - *S. Akhtar Mahmood**,** Lead Investment Policy Officer, Business
   Regulation CIC/FPD*
   - *Benjamin Herzberg**, Program Lead, Responsible Business and
   Governance, WBI*

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