United Arab Emirates 16% open

The Ministry of Finance is responsible for the annual budget ( http://www.mof.gov.ae/ ), however, the website does not publish the budget.

The annual budget is issued as a Federation Law which is published in the Official Gazette of the UAE. ( http://www.alittihad.ae/details.php?id=36283&y=2015 ) The Official Gazette can be purchased from the Ministry of Justice and is not available on the internet. ( https://gazette.moj.gov.ae/Introduction.aspx )

Reviewer's Comment: I was able to find the data on the website for the Ministry of Finance on its Open Data section, it is available for online for free. It is in PDF and XLS format, though not openly licensed. Data is available both as balance and as functional (departments). The balance has expenses as ongoing expenses and assets, each with sub categories. The descriptions provided are very limited though. http://www.mof.gov.ae/Ar/OpenData/Pages/default.aspx

The UAE has a data portal that provides data on a variety of issues including GDP, foreign investment, etc.

The data does not appear to be up to date though and there is no updates after January 2014.

seem the data is exist but During the visit to the website there was a Malfunction in the Part of the presentation of information of live data

The Ministry of Justice has a website for accessing federal UAE laws, supreme court judgements, and official legal opinions. ( http://www.elaws.gov.ae/DefaultAr.aspx ).

This website does not appear to be up to date and does not include some core laws such as the laws relating to the annual budget.

The primary platform for publishing legislation in the UAE is the Official Gazette, which is available offline for a fee.

The National Center of Meteorology and Seismology is responsible for weather data in the UAE. It has an interactive website that allows the user to access various weather data. However, it only allows the user to display weather data for the current day and a few previous days.

Monthly statistical history is available per station (e.g. http://www.ncms.ae/en/climate-reports-yearly.html?id=102)

It is unknown if the UAE collects or publishes any data relating to water quality.

UAE does not seem to maintain a database that covers individual records of transactions.

The Ministry of Finance publishes the latest data about tenders on a timely manner on its website. ( http://www.mof.gov.ae/ar/publication/pages/tenders.aspx ). Details relating to awards do not appear to be online.

Not to editor: I am facing a problem whenever I try to answer "no" the question "publicly available". I had this same problem with many of my submissions, the form gets accepted only if I set the answer as "unsure".

Reviewer's comment: Since the data for awardees is not available, I'd mark this entity as unavailable since it doesn't meet the minimum requirements

The UAE does not use a postcode/zip code system. It is unknown if the required data under this category is available in the UAE. No official admin boundaries shapes have been identified.

Admin boundaries can be downloaded from different third parties: http://www.gadm.org/download

http://uaeugis.blogspot.ro/2015/04/uae-admin-boundaries.html

It is difficult to find out if such a map exists and what body is responsible for it due to the federal system of the UAE. Individual emirates, or states, could be responsible for maintaining and publishing their own maps. For example, the emirate of Abu Dhabi has a website for geospatial information ( https://sdi.abudhabi.ae/ ) , but naturally covers only its own territory and not the territory of other emirates.

Land Ownership matters in the UAE are dealt with on the individual state (Emirate) level and not on the federal level. The Abu Dhabi City Municipality ( http://www.adm.gov.ae/ ) appears to be the body responsible for the registration of real estate in the capital, but it does not share the data publicly.

Reviewer's comment: It doesn't seem that the data is available to the public, the submitter's comment confirms this. Thus, I will mark this as unavailable

The National Committee for Elections is responsible for conducting the elections of the National Federation Council, the Emirati parliamentary body. The website of the National Committee has information about previous elections ( https://www.uaenec.ae/ar/about-us/about-fnc-elections ) that include information such as names of candidates and the numbers votes they each acquired. The data includes the number of candidates and the number of votes each person acquired with a state level breakdown. There is no polling station break down because there was one polling station in each state.

Reviewer's Comment:

The data on the website doesn't have the Number of Invalid/Spoiled votes, thus, I think I will mark the whole dataset as unavailable since it doesn't meet the requirements

The Ministry of Economy of the UAE has an online system for querying the unified central register of businesses in the UAE. ( http://cbls.economy.gov.ae/ ) The feature for searching for the business name displays the name of the business, its unique identify, and the date of its registration and expiration. The address is not available from this form. There is another search option for looking up business activities ( http://cbls.economy.gov.ae/BASearch.aspx ) but it is difficult to use this system to verify if it shows the address of the business or not.