African Data Revolution: Survey
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A list of registered companies and key data about each company. Open data from company registers may be used for many ends: e.g. enabling customers and businesses to see with whom they deal, or to see where a company has registered offices. This definition draws on the work of OpenCorporates.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | Company registration statements can be downloaded by individual company. |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | No terms of use or licences available. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| location | https://www.cepici.ci/?tmp=annonces_legales&p=annonces- - | The website shows Legal ads that include the name of the registered company, the unique identifier, and the date of creation. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | By sending a message via messenger to a person working in the communication unit of CEPICI. | |
| characteristics | Name of company, Physical company location, Unique identifier per company, Date of registration (and dissolution), Register available for entire country | No company owner is provided, but the name of the gérant (which may be equivalent to a leading manager?). A registration number is assigned under the name "RCCM." The register stores roughly more than 30,000 company entries. This seems to be roughly the amount of registered companies according to World Bank figures: https://geofred.stlouisfed.org/map/?th=pubugn&cc=5&rc=false&im=fractile&sb&lng=-5.449&lat=10.909&zm=6&sl&sv&sti=73&rt=country&at=Not%20Seasonally%20Adjusted,%20Annual,%20Number%20of%20Listed%20Companies%20per%20Million%20People&fq=Annual&am=Average&un=lin&dt=2015-01-01. |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | CENTRE DE PROMOTION DES INVESTISSEMENTS EN COTE-D'IVOIRE (CEPICI) |