[kictanet] Holding Companies and Their Directors to Account: An Open Data Solution

[Muchiri Nyaggah]

Hi Listers.

Some on this list may find this to be of interest. You can register for the
event here http://opencorporates.eventbrite.com/ It is organized by the
Nairobi Chapter of HacksHackers.


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Holding Companies and Their Directors to Account: An Open Data Solution
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Date: Tuesday, 30th October 2012

Venue: 88mph

Time: 1800hrs - 2000hrs

Highly interconnected global companies have exploded in complexity and
power, and increasingly affect our lives for good and bad. Yet in tandem
with this growth, corporate governance has weakened. The opacity and
complexity of this corporate world is a key enabler of corruption, tax
avoidance and organised crime.

Until now painstaking manual investigation has been required to track even
the most basic facts about a company, such as whether it exists, and who
owns it. Chris Taggart of OpenCorporates.com
<http://opencorporates.com/>believes it’s time to change that. Chris
is building an open access
database with basic information on every corporate entity in the world
which can then be remixed and combined with other data, such as government
contracts.

Chris Taggart will offer a hands-on session on some ways to use powerful
data-driven tools and open access databases to mine company information
from across the world. Chris will show how highly interconnected global
companies have exploded in complexity and power, while corporate governance
has weakened. The opacity and complexity of this corporate world is a key
enabler of corruption, tax avoidance and organised crime.

Chris will demonstrate how you can use even basic company information to
remix and combine your data with other information, such as government
contracts or regulatory filings, to gain new insights.

We invite all those with an interest in issues of corruption and
transparency to a hands-on practical session to learn about Chris’s
techniques and how you can put them to work for you.

PART 1:        Why Open Up Corporate Data?

Corporate transparency challenges globally and in Africa (Chris Taggart)

PART 2:        How to Open Up Corporate Data

Demo - What you can do with OpenCorporates database (Chris Taggart)

Q&A/Hands-on advice

Interested?        Please register online for the event (
http://opencorporates.eventbrite.com/)
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Kind regards,

Muchiri Nyaggah | PRINCIPAL PARTNER
@muchiri
Cell: +254 722 506400
Skype: mrmuchiri
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