Blog posts on beneficial ownership from Open Ownership
In this guest blog post, Johannes Tonn documents our joint event with CIPE and partners during the Summit for Democracy in Zambia. The session explored engaging the business community in strengthening joint efforts to achieve greater beneficial ownership transparency
Written by Johannes Tonn
Published: 05 April 2023
Our recent workshop in Botswana sought to address questions like why should governments and law enforcement agencies pay attention to public procurement to prevent and detect corruption? How can open contracting help, and what is the link between beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) and public procurement?
Written by Julie Rialet
Published: 04 April 2023
This blog post includes some reflections from the recent Summit for Democracy and asks: where next on beneficial ownership transparency?
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 31 March 2023
This blogpost outlines the trends we have observed through our work engaging with the people interested in using beneficial ownership data, including investigative journalists and civil society actors
Written by Agustina De Luca , Julie Rialet
Published: 29 March 2023
Opening Extractives event demonstrates growing community of practice and momentum on beneficial ownership transparency in the region
Written by Lucia Cirimello, Esteban Manteca Melgarejo
Published: 22 March 2023
In this guest blog post, Angus Barry discusses how governments respond to international pressure and domestic policy goals in deciding whether and how to pass corporate transparency laws, and create effective corporate transparency systems.
Written by Angus Barry
Meet Mutale Mukuka and Emily Manuel, the two newest members of staff at Open Ownership
Written by Kathryn Davies
Published: 14 March 2023
We are continuing our work on developing the world’s leading open standard for beneficial ownership data, and are requesting technical feedback on our latest draft proposals
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Kadie Armstrong
Published: 07 March 2023
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
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
