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OpenCorporates is a
In 2011, the site won third place in the Open Data Challenge. Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes said the site "is the kind of resource the (Digital) Single Market needs and it is encouraging to see that it is being built." The project was represented on the
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website
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that shares data on corporation
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s under the copyleft
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Open Database License. The company was launched on 20 December 2010, by Chris Taggart and Rob McKinnon.
Recognition
In 2011, the site won third place in the Open Data Challenge. Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes said the site "is the kind of resource the (Digital) Single Market needs and it is encouraging to see that it is being built." The project was represented on the European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
's Core Vocabularies Working Group's Core Business Task Force.
In early 2012, the project was appointed to the Financial Stability Board
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system. It was established after the G20 London summit in April 2009 as a successor to the Financial Stability Forum ...
's advisory panel on a Legal Entity Identification for Financial Contracts.
In July 2015, OpenCorporates was a finalist in both the Business and Publisher categories at the Open Data Institute
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Awards. It was announced as the winner of the Open Data Business Award due to work with promoting data transparency in the corporate sector.
Usage
The service has been used to study public procurement data, online hiring market, to visualize and analyze company data to analyze tax havens, illicit activities of companies.See also
*List of company registers
This is a list of official business registers around the world.
There are many types of official business registers, usually maintained for various purposes by a state authority, such as a government agency, or a court of law. In some cases, ...
* Corporate Registers Forum
The Corporate Registers Forum is an association grouping the corporate registries among the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.
The membership is open to government agencies and their officials responsible for the administration of body cor ...
* European business register
The European Business Register Network (EBR Network) is a network of trade registers kept by the registration authorities of several European countries, managed by the European Business Registry Association. The EBR was developed as a part of the f ...
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Internet properties established in 2011 Online databases Open data Public records