Company Register / 2014 45% open

What data is expected?

List of registered (limited liability) companies. The submissions in this data category does not need to include detailed financial data such as balance sheet etc. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Name of company
• Unique identifier of the company
• Company address
• Updated at least once a month

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data available for free? Yes
•   Is the data machine readable? No (n/a)
•   Available in bulk? Yes
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? No
•   Publicly available? Yes(as List of Cameroonian companies by industry: This elaborated document provides foreign investors, a list of companies deemed published by Cameroon's National Institute of Statistics)
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

The purpose of the sharing of this information is to recruit more investors. So several data are missing (companies under 100 millions as turnover per year). The entire sector of Mining is missing also so we don't know who is extracting gold or diamond in the country.

Reviewer comments

One Change made, the data is not likely to be openly licensed as it is from the National Statistics Institutes website http://www.statistics-cameroon.org/ and this site is copyrighted. Furthermore, nowhere is it explicitly stated to be openly licensed.