Belgium / 2013 27% open

Belgium is ranked #56 in the 2013 Index

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Rank	Dataset	Location (URL)	Format	Prev.	Score
34	Government Budget	http://www.begroting.be/portal...	n/a	n/a	45%
34	Government Budget URL: http://www.begroting.be/portal/page/portal/INTERNET_pagegroup/Begroting%20Online%202013/Middelenbegroting%202013%20aangepast.pdf Portal provides links to PDFs containing all of the numbers.
51	Election Results	http://verkiezingen2010.belgiu...	PDF	n/a	35%
51	Election Results URL: http://verkiezingen2010.belgium.be/nl/cha/results/results_start.html Format: PDF Only PDFs of 2010 national election.
34	Transport Timetables	n/a	n/a	n/a	35%
34	Transport Timetables National rail company (NMBS/ SNCB) has not made access to the data available and has threatened to sue people (iRail) who have used access to the site to provide better user experience. National bus services: - De Lijn (busses / trams / subway in Flanders): timetables available in PDF. Mobile app exists and you can contact them to sign a license if you want the data. - TEC (busses / trams / subway in Wallonia): couldn't find links to data - The STIB/MIVB (busses / trams / subway in Brussels) signed an agreement with Google, not sure if others can get the timetables in the same format. timetables are available in PDF though. Mobile app exists but not sure if API is publicly available.
54	National Statistics	http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/Gl...	n/a	n/a	35%
54	National Statistics URL: http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/GlobalDispatcher?TARGET=/TreeviewLinker&Lang=E&prop=treeview Many separate spreadsheets available, although some data is only available when making a selection using online report builder.
34	Pollutant Emissions	http://irceline.be/	n/a	n/a	35%
34	Pollutant Emissions URL: http://irceline.be/ Air quality: http://irceline.be/ (old-style HTML pages, API probably not available), licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND Radiation: http://telerad.fgov.be/ (flash based) Since environment is a Other data probably fed to http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps
47	Legislation	http://www.belgielex.be	n/a	n/a	35%
47	Legislation URL: http://www.belgielex.be Structure of laws / law books could be improved: most legislation is available in HTML, but it misses semantic markup. Jurisprudence can be searched / viewed in a flash-based application.
39	Company Register	http://kbopub.economie.fgov.be...	n/a	n/a	30%
39	Company Register URL: http://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/zoekwoordenform.html While it is available in bulk, that requires a 100.000 EUR/year license (by law). Per-company info is free, if requested on a one-by-one basis
49	National Map	http://ngi.be/NL/NL1.shtm	n/a	n/a	15%
49	National Map URL: http://ngi.be/NL/NL1.shtm Not sure if low-res data can be obtained for free from another source. Brussels region does publish some maps for free: http://www.cibg.irisnet.be/core-business-nl/operationele-departementen/diensten/urbis
45	Postcodes / Zipcodes	n/a	n/a	n/a	0%
45	Postcodes / Zipcodes There is no geospatial link for the postcodes. All that's available is the postcodes themselves with corresponding place names (http://www.bpost.be/site/nl/residential/customerservice/search/postal_codes.html).
38	Government Spending	n/a	n/a	n/a	0%
38	Government Spending Only aggregate tables per year are published on the statistical portal of the national bank of Belgium: http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/PublicatieSelectieLinker?LinkID=82000033\|910000082&Lang=N

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