herah

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The three stages of verification for beneficial ownership data(blog.opencorporates.com)
2 points by herah 9y ago|0 comments
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Find skeletons in Cayman Islands data. We'll donate to charity for best story(opengazettes.com)
1 points by herah 10y ago|0 comments
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by herah 11y ago
I love this list. All of these are so annoying as a user.
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by herah 11y ago
I also work at OpenCorporates and work alongside NGOs and investigators on stories as the data we have can be essential in tracking chains of corporate control and expose links to corruption. We have a community of botwriters and researcher
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Running a fluid and democratic volunteer-run org|An open structure of management(medium.com)
1 points by herah 11y ago|0 comments
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by herah 11y ago
Great point! This joins a host of other coding bootcamps springing up in places with small (but increasing) tech sector e.g Code school in Kabul, Code for Pakistan etc.
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by herah 11y ago
The data is under a share-alike license which means if you're not going to share the results of the whatever you're going to do with the data with the rest of the world. A lot of academics, open data projects, NGOs and journalists
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How open data was used to uncover the elite benefiting from Myanmar’s jade trade(medium.com)
24 points by herah 11y ago|4 comments
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by herah 11y ago
^ Could not agree more!
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by herah 11y ago
That's what so many said about Manning and look where he is now. Though I'm with you that if this happens, it would be great.
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by herah 11y ago
I know someone who will love this A LOT when it comes to Android! Thanks for sharing.
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by herah 12y ago
Cool! I had no idea this existed even though I work in the open data and transparency space.
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by herah 12y ago
I love Slack but if you can dish out some money - try Flowdock because you can tag conversations within streams! It's my favourite feature.
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by herah 12y ago
I suggest volunteering. I'm quite social but I run a charity and I've noticed a lot of volunteers that are generally shy or introverted become more relaxed and pick up social skills over time as most conversations and interactions
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by herah 12y ago
We found lots of different estimates ranging from 4 trillion to 12.8 trillion dollars and chose to use the conservative figure. Better Market estimated at 12.8 trillion: http://bettermarkets.com/sites/default/files
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by herah 12y ago
It really is the starting point. I work at OpenCorporates and have worked on this campaign! We don't know what the data will tell us unless we scrape all of it though one of my colleagues took a look at the financial licenses from US a