Open Knowledge

Isle of Man / 2014 60% open

Isle of Man is ranked #21 in the 2014 Index
Isle of Man's overall Index ranking is down from #17 in 2013

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. Score
1 Government Budget
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http://www.gov.im/media/134606... Excel #10  95% 100%
1 Government Budget
URL: http://www.gov.im/media/1346060/pink_book_2014-15-xls-.xlsx
Format: Excel

PDF: http://www.gov.im/media/1031671/pink_book_2014-15.pdf XLSX: http://www.gov.im/media/1346060/pink_book_2014-15-xls-.xlsx

Other national statistics are available from the Treasury Economic Affairs Division (generally equivalent to Office of National Statistics): http://www.gov.im/about-the-government/departments/treasury/economic-affairs-division/

There is also a well organised independent apolitical CSO/PMO Positive Action Group with topical analysis: http://positiveactiongroup.org/index.php?option=com_attachments&task=download&id=74


13 Transport Timetables
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http://www.gov.im/publictransp... PDF #12  55% 75%
13 Transport Timetables
URL: http://www.gov.im/publictransport/
Format: PDF

Includes bus, steam train, electric tram and horse tram timetables in PDF.

Requested CSV/XLS export but apparently issues with legacy system, resources, etc. Recently more positive engagement, so hopeful a shift to GTFS and mobile app. Most routes have already been independently handcoded into GTFS format by the local open data community to accelerate adoption.

Confirmed that footer on public transport content is outdated and incorrectly links to outdated terms and conditions not the new IM OGL based on the UK OGL.


21 National Statistics
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http://www.gov.im/about-the-go... PDF #54  40% 75%
21 National Statistics
URL: http://www.gov.im/about-the-government/departments/treasury/economic-affairs-division/
Format: PDF

noted that localised IM OGL now available based on UK OGL


19 Election Results
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https://www.gov.im/categories/... PDF #35  45% 75%
19 Election Results
URL: https://www.gov.im/categories/home-and-neighbourhood/electoral-register/election-information/election-results/
Format: PDF

independent http://iomelections.com/ maintained by a techy at a local data hosting company


9 Company Register
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http://www.gov.im/ded/pvi/pvi_... HTML ... #10  55% 75%
9 Company Register
URL: http://www.gov.im/ded/pvi/pvi_fr.html
Format: HTML ASP.NET

new localised IM OGL based on UK OGL -- data also webscraped by opencorporates.com


22 Pollutant Emissions
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http://www.gov.im/about-the-go... HTML, ... #21  55% 65%
22 Pollutant Emissions
URL: http://www.gov.im/about-the-government/departments/environment-food-and-agriculture/environment-directorate/environmental-protection-unit/air-quality/
Format: HTML, XLS, copy and paste to CSV and XLS

Air quality emissions testing stations discontinued in 2009 due to consistently low readings. Survey data collated to publish carbon emissions reduction strategy report. Some environmental sensors to monitor vehicle and waste incinerator emissions with published statistics.


37 National Map
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http://www.gov.im/maps/ javascr ... #25  55% 45%
37 National Map
URL: http://www.gov.im/maps/
Format: javascript HTML

(C) MANNGIS on visualisation but MannGIS is a government service and the Ts&Cs on the footer reference a new IM OGL open government licence .

ESRI ArcGIS also has a free tools for low end reuse.


29 Location datasets
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http://www.iompost.com/postal/... n/a #7  95% 40%
29 Location datasets
URL: http://www.iompost.com/postal/postcodes.xml


The Isle of Man Government still owns the Isle of Man Post Office. Postcode searches require a registered email address (free) and rate limited to 10 searches per day. The government IT department sells the postcode/geolocation dataset to a very small customer base of couriers, dairy co-operative doorstep milk delivery service, Tesco, etc. An IT services company (http://www.afd.co.uk/) also resell geolocation datasets and data cleansing services.


67 Legislation
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n/a n/a #20  55% 40%
67 Legislation


All primary legislation is uploaded by the HM Attorney General's department (cloud hosted open source system as per Jersey) and all secondary legislation is uploaded by the IT department at the Isle of Man Parliament (cloud hosted Microsoft Sharepoint). All "live" primary legislation is available free online. All secondary legislation from 2000 is available free online and all earlier secondary legislation is available free by email (typically within 1 hour) -- all earlier secondary legislation will be uploaded in 2014 Q4.

Since some of the legislation is not available online, we are marking it as 'unsure'. Bulk download of all legislations is also not present. And the Open Government License is unfortunately not the one linked as the Terms of Use of the Legislation Web Site.


15 Government Spending
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n/a n/a n/a 10%
15 Government Spending


The reports on http://financereports.gov.im include aggregated expenditures and revenues but do not include transactional data.

Extensive discussions took place with the Treasury in 2014; Feedback was submitted on public beta and data upload commitments; agreement in principle to include website analytics to quantify interest, to share with CSOs, developers and other governments on open data path; some discussions with open government lead at Microsoft Europe on shift from quarter end to month end to day end to real time open banking and extensive discussions with http://openbankproject.com


Contributors

Reviewers

  • Georg Neumann
  • Gil Zaretzer
  • Graeme Jones
  • Kamil Gregor
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Zach Christensen
  • anonymous
  • Nisha Thompson
  • yar michl
  • Rebecca Sentance
  • Neal Bastek
  • Codrina Maria Ilie

Submitters

  • Oleg Lavrovsky
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Graeme Jones
  • anonymous
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Codrina Maria Ilie