Over the last few months, mySociety and SpendNetwork have been working on a project for the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) Global Digital Marketplace Programme and the Prosperity Fund Global Anti-Corruption programme, led by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), around beneficial ownership in public procurement.

We’ve gathered some of the things we learned in a series of blog posts:

• What is beneficial ownership?
• Collecting and making use of beneficial ownership data 
• Beneficial ownership data and preferential procurement 
• Screening for conflicts of interest in ownership data 
• Unequal impacts of open registers of ownership 
• Beneficial ownership tools and analysis 
• Getting public benefit from private IDs 
• Visualising conflicts of interests

The entire series can be viewed here.

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