Panama / 2014 25% open

INEC has a lot of specific analysis but getting access to the whole dataset is not possible.

If there is any machine-readable data available, I was not able to find it. The website is very confusing.

Various budget data are to be found on the Ministry of Finance website. There is no annual document with expenditures and revenues planned but you can find for instance yearly updated investment plan for next 5 years in pdf format. Data are quite aggregated though.

Most statues, resolutions and regulations are available either from government websites such as Infojurídica or third parties. The problem lies in the quality of the documents, which for some reason are sometimes printed, then scanned into PDFs and uploaded, rendering them unsearchable (document quality is also sometimes an issue).

You have to register for an account to access the data.

Unofficial sources:

http://www.panadata.net/sociedades http://www.panadata.net/personas

Data is aggregated, not in a transactional form.

Summarized by month at this url: http://contraloria.gob.pa/index.php?opcion=InfContral

If you know the number of the check or contract you can look it up on their site: http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/Sicowebconsultas/buscar.aspx

I have extracted most of the data and published it here: http://www.panadata.net/contraloria

There are several government organizations related to geospatial data collection:

• Panamanian Infrastructure for Spacial Data
• National Geographic Institute "Tommy Guardia"
• National Land Distribution Authority

The Tommy Guardia Institute recently led several projects in an effort to create geographically accurate national maps, but the maps themselves are not publicly available and not online. To get a map (in digital or physical form), a person must go to the Tommy Guardia Institute's office and pay $50.00 for the 1:250000 map.

Also on their website, there is a portal at the bottom of the page called "Cors" where anyone can log in with username "corsigntg" and password "corsigntg " and retrieve what looks like geographic data collected on a monthly basis. (Log in here) I don't personally understand the data, but it looks like latitudes and longitudes and I believe this page explains the data format.

The metropolitan bus service MiBus, http://www.mibus.com.pa/, only contain routes without times.

The Website for the national Bus Transport System is under construction. http://www.grantnt.com/

Our postal service is mediocre at best. Their link is: http://www.correospanama.gob.pa/

The institution that manages the land and maps, ANATI, has their website down at the moment. http://www.anati.gob.pa/

They publish PDF maps but I haven't been able to find a post code database. In practical terms, we don't use them in our daily life.