Blog posts

IMF Anti-Corruption Challenge – exploring how technology can inform better decision making

Beneficial ownership transparency: at the heart of Armenia’s anti-corruption agenda

What's in a name?

Check out our guest blogpost from Sean Martin McDonald, tackling the questions of why the focus open ownership, and what those words really mean. McDonald is a CIGI senior fellow and the co-founder of Digital Public, which builds legal trusts to protect and govern digital assets

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

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

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

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

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