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 | No | |
| Publicly available | No | The search mask to query company data is currently not available online. |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | No | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| Digital data | No | |
| Print data | No | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Searched Ghana and company registers | |
| characteristics | None of the above | Based on the user guide here I found that company name and registration status are at least collected. https://egovonline.gegov.gov.gh/RGDPortalWeb/portal/RGDHome/eghana.portal?_nfpb=true&_st=&_pageLabel=portal_RGDHome_NameSearchPage_page&linksPageTitle=Name+Search&service=namesearch#wlp_portal_RGDHome_NameSearchPage_page |
| Controlled access | No | |
| Collector name | Registrar General's Department | Based on the user guide here I found that company name and registration status are at least collected. |