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 | No | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | No licence terms found |
| Up-to-date | Yes | We can filter the most recent company registrations and see that data is available in the timeframe of the last three months. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| location | http://edbm.mg/avis-de-constitution/?lang=fr - | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Searched company registers on Google | |
| characteristics | Name of company, Unique identifier per company, Date of registration (and dissolution) | Unique identifier: Tax ID is provided (so called Numero d’identification fiscale, or NIF). Company founder name is provided, but not the owner name. Available for entire country is unsure since we cannot search for companies in different areas and we don’t know if the register provides companies from various locations. |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Economic Development Board of Madagascar |