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Open Ownership's blog is the space where our colleagues, or invited guests, can share their thinking on all aspects of beneficial ownership transparency reform around the world
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Graph visualisation is providing insights for policy-makers and implementers
In our last blogpost in this series, we showcased our new graph visualisation tool, which enables investigators to better understand the complex ownership networks and the sphere of influence of beneficial owners. In this blog, we’ll explore how graph visualisation benefits another, perhaps less obvious, set of users: policy-makers and implementers
Written by Laurence Bascle
Published: 03 September 2019
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Building on momentum: our direction of travel
We will continue to demonstrate why the value of beneficial ownership data by delivering high-quality data through our open register, showing how open delivers real benefits and supporting more countries to publish
Written by Thom Townsend
Published: 14 August 2019
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From the "why" to the "how": working with EITI and OGP
How coordination and support by platforms like the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative and the Open Government Partnership is making beneficial ownership transparency a global norm
Written by Dr Loren Treisman, Cathy Greene
Published: 01 August 2019
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What graph visualisation teaches us about beneficial ownership
We’re excited to be launching a new version of our graph visualisation functionality to the OpenOwnership Register. We hope this will act as a powerful resource for journalists, policy makers and civil society by allowing them to more easily interpret the data to expose corruption, undertake due diligence and support policy impact
Written by Laurence Bascle
Published: 30 July 2019
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What we learned at the OGP Summit 2019
We’ve returned from the 2019 OGP Summit in Ottawa with our spirits high. The event brought together senior government officials and a broad spectrum of civil society organisations to discuss common challenges and new solutions in open government
Written by Dr Loren Treisman
Published: 17 June 2019
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Who owns our companies: why privacy isn’t always in the public interest
Written by Dr Loren Treisman
Published: 01 June 2019
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Guest post: evaluating the personal privacy objections to public beneficial ownership registries
How seriously should we take the “personal privacy” objection to public beneficial ownership registries?
Written by Adriana Edmeades-Jones, Tom Walker
Published: 21 March 2019
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Three takeaways from Kyrgyz Republic on implementing beneficial ownership transparency
In February 2019, alongside the 42nd EITI International Board meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, we launched our report and recommendations for beneficial ownership transparency in the Kyrgyz Republic’s extractives sector
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 01 March 2019
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