OpenCorporates

Data

Interview: Hera Hussain on the need for open data

Hera Hussain is Communities and Partnerships Manager at OpenCorporates, the world’s largest open companies database. When she isn’t busy organising hackathons and liberating corporate data from across the internet, she works with the social entrepreurship movement MakeSense and empowers women to achieve independence through Chayn. She spoke to

Events

Getting past the paywall: Companies House

Rebecca Ratcliffe At this week’s Hacks/Hackers meet up Heather Brooke discussed the Companies House website’s paywall and the restrictions it places on access to company data. In response, audience members suggested some useful sites which offer free access to annual accounts. Here’s a few that were