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 | The info are embedded into HTML table, there is no way to download it |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| location | https://creationdentreprise.sn/rechercher-une-societe - List of all registered companies, https://creationdentreprise.sn/lamodid-sarl - Example of company page where you have info on your company | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Google research | |
| characteristics | Name of company, Physical company location, Unique identifier per company, Date of registration (and dissolution), Register available for entire country | The register uses a search engine which allows to filter a 1400 page list of companies. It is possible to search by region as well, which helps to determine whether data is available for the entire country (meaning at least across different regions). |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Bureau d’Appui à la Création d’entreprise |