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

[S.M. Muraya]

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On Oct 29, 2012 8:21 AM, "Muchiri Nyaggah" <muchiri at semacraft.com> wrote:

> 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
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> Venue: 88mph
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> Time: 1800hrs - 2000hrs
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> PART 1:        Why Open Up Corporate Data?
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> Corporate transparency challenges globally and in Africa (Chris Taggart)
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> PART 2:        How to Open Up Corporate Data
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> Demo - What you can do with OpenCorporates database (Chris Taggart)
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> Q&A/Hands-on advice
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> Interested?        Please register online for the event (
> http://opencorporates.eventbrite.com/)
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> Kind regards,
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> Muchiri Nyaggah | PRINCIPAL PARTNER
> @muchiri
> Cell: +254 722 506400
> Skype: mrmuchiri
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