Bahrain 25% open

Bahrain has a data portal that provides a variety of statistics ( http://www.data.gov.bh/ ). However, this website is very buggy and it is difficult to verify if the data is available.

GDP up to 2014. Population up to 2014.

The Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications has a dedicated website for the weather in Bahrain ( http://www.bahrainweather.gov.bh/ ). The website provides a variety of weather and provides details of weather, wind, sea state, temperature and humidity for the next five days.

The Legislation and Legal Opinions Directorate posts the latest laws on its websites as soon as they get published in the Official Gazette. ( http://www.legalaffairs.gov.bh/71.aspx?cms=iQRpheuphYtJ6pyXUGiNqkizO3w1IVEN ) The website also provides an advanced law search engine ( http://www.legalaffairs.gov.bh/AdvancedSearch.aspx ).

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Bahrain provides a dedicated website for the company register (http://www.business.gov.bh/ ) that allows the public to search or browse the register and find up to date details about any company with information including the company registration number, address, telephone number, shareholders, registered activities and more.

To browse the register, select "Information Request" at the side. The information is sorted by Block (area), Industry or Company Type, and at least one of these criteria must be chosen to make a search; but the data can otherwise be browsed freely.

To perform a search with keywords, select "Search" at the side and enter the company name or registry number to obtain search results.

The Bahraini Tender Board provides details about current tenders and the latest awards. The data includes the project name, number of bids, winning company, and the value of the contract. The tender data appears to be up to date, but the latest awarded data is available up to June 2014 only.

Central Informatics Organization is responsible for creating and maintaining GIS data in Bahrain, it provides a number of applications for browsing the data such as the Explore Bahrain App ( http://www.bahrainlocator.gov.bh/ ). However, the data cannot be downloaded, is not machine readable, and is not open.

The government of Bahrain seems to collect transactional data digitally given their most recent final accounts statement: http://www.mofne.gov.bh/showdatafile.asp?rid=2991&ftype=file1 but no transactional data is published.

The Supreme Council for Environment in Bahrain is responsible for environmental issues.and it seem data of Air Quality Monitoring is been collected Air Quality Monitoring Air quality in Bahrain is monitored through five Monitoring station placed one in each governorate (Muharraqe-Capital-Central-southern-Northen) • 14 parameters are monitored: CO- SO2- NO2- PM, Ozon,VOC….. from -http://www.unep.org/transport/pcfv/PDF/dieselretrofitproject-031308.pdf and https://oservices.bahrain.bh/wps/portal/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3iDYCMDD1MjYwN3H2cXA6MgT09vgwBXQxNjQ_3g1Dz9gmxHRQCjTimv/?WCM_PORTLET=PC_7_0S20H5230GLCD02RIIK0PE14B7_WCM&WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/egov+english+library/egovernment+site/general/progress+in+the+area+of+sustainable+development+to+protect+the+environment+and+natural+resources

it seem the data is not Publicly available

The annual budget can be downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Finance ( http://www.mof.gov.bh/arb/categorylist.asp?ctype=budget ). The report available provides review and expediter with a department level breakdown. The website provides a link for downloading the report in Excel or PDF formats, but currently only the PDF link works.

The Ministry of Finance website has an archive for previous years going back to 2003.

Reviewer's note - data is available only in department level. This does not meet the criteria for the budget data. It seems as the data exist but it in not available to the public.

Bahrain has a Supreme Council for Environment, but no website for this organisation can be found and it is unknown if it collects or publishes any data on water quality.

Bahrain solely holds elections for the Chamber of Deputies (lower Chamber of the bicameral Bahraini Parliament, the Shura Council members being appointed by the King).

The website of the Directorate of Election and Referendum ( http://www.vote.bh ) provides details relating to the candidates and the number of votes they each acquired in each voting round. The data available on the website does not include the total number of registered voters or the number of invalid votes - therefore it has been considered as not being available online for the purpose of the index.

Bahrain does not use a postcode/zip code system. It is unknown if there is a dataset of administrative borders with the required descriptions is available.

The Survey and Land Registration Bureau of Bahrain has a department that is responsible for the land register. However, no information is available about the status of the data and it is definite that this data is not publicly available.