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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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How we visualised the ownership and control of state-owned enterprises using Open Ownership tools
In this blog post, we explain how we used Open Ownership’s open source technology tools to convert publicly available information on two state-owned enterprises into structured data
Written by Emma Howard , Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 10 February 2023
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Analyse and reuse beneficial ownership data from the UK, Denmark or Slovakia
Open Ownership has updated our data analysis toolkit to help those using open data published in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Kadie Armstrong , Simon Whitehouse , Emma Howard , Lewis Spurgin
Published: 14 December 2022
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Beneficial ownership transparency gets closer to the ground in Philippines workshop
In November, representatives of civil society organisations from across the Philippines gathered in Manila to participate in a training on beneficial ownership data use
Written by Karla Espinosa
Published: 06 December 2022
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Sharing experiences: December’s Leadership Group technical discussion on legislation and verification
On 1 December, the Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group held its latest technical meeting. These virtual meetings provide a space for government officials at the frontline of reform to meet peers from around the world, discuss challenges, and share experiences
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 05 December 2022
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Using beneficial ownership data analysis tools to understand, investigate and visualise ownership structures
In October and November, Open Ownership organised the first-of-its-kind workshop series to share the importance of structured beneficial ownership data
Written by Agustina De Luca , Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 23 November 2022
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Armenia's path to beneficial ownership transparency and data use
This blog post dives into Armenia's path to beneficial ownership transparency and data use
Written by Nyasha Vera
Published: 10 November 2022
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Plans for version 0.4 of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard provides guidance and a structured template for collecting, sharing and using high-quality, machine-readable data on beneficial ownership. This blog post covers future features we are working on, following the launch of version 0.3 in June 2022
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 02 November 2022
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Building technical capacity of stakeholders for beneficial ownership transparency: Lessons from Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Zambia
In July 2022, Anglophone African countries implementing the Opening Extractives programme – comprising Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Zambia – convened in Accra for a three-day regional peer exchange programme
Written by Favour Ime
Published: 27 October 2022