Open Knowledge

Isle of Man 57% open

Isle of Man is ranked #15 in the 2015 Index
Isle of Man's overall Index ranking is up from #21 in 2014

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. (2014) Score
1 Government Budget
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
http://www.gov.im/media/134606... Excel #1  100% 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


12 Weather forecast
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
https://www.gov.im/weather/5-d... n/a n/a n/a 75%
17 Procurement tenders
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
https://www.gov.im/media/38330... n/a n/a 75%
17 Procurement tenders
URL: https://www.gov.im/media/383300/notification-of-tender-results-17-07-2015.pdf


The new government digital strategy debated and approved by parliament introduced an expectation that the Open Contracting Data Standard will be adopted, initially in the Department of Infrastructure and then cross-government.


16 Election Results
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
https://www.gov.im/categories/... PDF #19  75% 75%
16 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


7 Water Quality
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
n/a n/a n/a 70%
7 Water Quality


https://www.gov.im/categories/the-environment-and-greener-living/isle-of-man-government-laboratory/drinking-water-quality/ all government website sub-domains and statutory bodies websites are actually subject to the standardised national OGL (with the potential exception of maps and postcodes due to contractual uncertainty over dataset supply to Royal Mail PAF and Ordnance Survey despite copyright holder status) but not all website footers have been amended -- and simply not the highest priority in any overloaded and staff capped public sector IT department

area specific water quality results are available on demand by telephone or email

extensive data on equally important bathing water quality: https://www.gov.im/categories/the-environment-and-greener-living/isle-of-man-government-laboratory/bathing-water-quality/


24 Legislation
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
n/a n/a #67  40% 70%
24 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 same day) -- all earlier secondary legislation will be uploaded in due course.

Since some of the legislation is not available online, we are marking it as 'unsure'. Bulk download of all legislations is not present.


47 National Statistics
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
https://www.gov.im/media/21932... PDF #21  75% 65%
47 National Statistics
URL: https://www.gov.im/media/219326/isle-of-man-in-numbers-2015-web-version.pdf
Format: PDF

Data up to 2014 posted in PDF here.

More information about national accounts available here.

Census information available here.


17 Pollutant Emissions
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
http://www.gov.im/about-the-go... HTML, ... #22  65% 65%
17 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.


35 National Map
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
http://www.gov.im/maps/ javascr ... #37  45% 45%
35 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.


20 Land Ownership
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
https://www.gov.im/maps/ vector ... n/a 40%
20 Land Ownership
URL: https://www.gov.im/maps/
Format: vector format (?)

https://www.gov.im/maps/ MANNGIS shows land boundaries and land size at a national level with same day updates via ESRI GIS land ownership is available free of charge via public terminal at the Land Registry -- the division has been merged with the Companies Registry and the offline system will be migrated to an online system in the next 6 months to assist estate agents and law firms with out of hours property and land searches


36 Location datasets
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
n/a n/a #29  40% 25%
36 Location datasets


The Isle of Man Government 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.

Sep 2015: not all data available online or in one place but specific meta data available on request from public counters

Sep 2015: clarified that the Isle of Man Post Office supplies postcodes to UK Royal Mail PAF under a contract but it is unclear if the contract is exclusive or non-exclusive and a request to establish legal certainty some time ago has still not had a response (unsurprisingly if non-exclusive lol)

Sep 2015: coordinates are in ESRI GIS system (Cabinet Office) and UNIFORM gazetteer (Department of Infrastructure) as northings/eastings but standard algorithms to convert to lat/long kn Google Maps, etc.


47 Company Register
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
https://services.gov.im/compan... n/a #9  75% 25%
47 Company Register
URL: https://services.gov.im/companies-registry/


The Isle of Man Companies Registry can be searched online for free, but any other data requires payment to obtain and is not made available in bulk. An account is also required to view company documents and purchase them. The registry appears to be updated monthly.

The website content is available under an Open Government License (https://www.gov.im/about-this-site/open-government-licence/) except where otherwise stated, but it is not clear whether this applies to any purchased documents, or what form those might be in (machine readable or not, digital or not).


8 Government Spending
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
n/a n/a #15  10% 10%
8 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