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 | |
| 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 | Conducted a google search with the following phrases: Malawi company registry, Malawi company register | |
| characteristics | None of the above | |
| Controlled access | No | |
| Collector name | Department of Registrar General | Department of Registrar General registers companies in Malawi: https://www.registrargeneral.gov.mw/services/registration-of-businesses.html |
I confirm the original assessment. After using multiple search terms such as [“malawi” AND “company search”] or [“Malawi” AND “Company register”] I was unable to find company registrations.