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Panama / 2014 25% open

Panama is ranked #79 in the 2014 Index
Panama's overall Index ranking is down from #61 in 2013

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. Score
60 National Statistics
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http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/... Excel, PDF n/a 50%
60 National Statistics
URL: http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/
Format: Excel, PDF

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


51 Election Results
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http://www.tribunal-electoral.... n/a n/a 45%
51 Election Results
URL: http://www.tribunal-electoral.gob.pa/html/index.php?id=841


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


59 Government Budget
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http://www.mef.gob.pa/es/infor... n/a n/a 45%
59 Government Budget
URL: http://www.mef.gob.pa/es/informes/Documents/PQI%202011-2015.pdf


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.


68 Legislation
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http://infojuridica.procuradur... n/a n/a 35%
68 Legislation
URL: http://infojuridica.procuraduria-admon.gob.pa/Infojuridica/


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).


50 Company Register
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http://registro-publico.gob.pa... n/a n/a 35%
50 Company Register
URL: http://registro-publico.gob.pa/index.php/en/ingresar1.html


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

Unofficial sources:

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


14 Government Spending
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n/a n/a n/a 20%
14 Government Spending


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


61 National Map
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n/a n/a n/a 20%
61 National Map


There are several government organizations related to geospatial data collection:

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.


61 Transport Timetables
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61 Transport Timetables


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/


57 Location datasets
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57 Location datasets


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.


73 Pollutant Emissions
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Contributors

Reviewers

  • Georg Neumann
  • Gil Zaretzer
  • Pierre Chrzanowski
  • Kamil Gregor
  • Neal Bastek
  • Mor Rubinstein
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