The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing has given early attention to making data available to beneficiaries, recognizing the role of data in promoting knowledge and supporting decision-making. The Ministry began in 2009 by creating a statistics page that included a time series of several datasets related to municipal sector activities and services.
With the acceleration of digital transformation and the diversification of data produced by the Ministry and recognizing the importance of open data and its economic, social, and developmental role, the open data page was developed on the Ministry's official website and other platforms to provide datasets in different formats in line with relevant decisions.
Impact Resulting from Making Open Data Available:
- Maximizing the benefit of data by making it available to beneficiaries in different formats that are processable and analyzable.
- Raising awareness of the municipal sector's efforts in improving the services provided.
- Promoting beneficiary satisfaction by providing services faster and according to a specific and regular publication schedule.
Steps to Request Open Data from the Ministry:
- Log into the Balady platform
- Go to the About Balady section
- Go to Data Request
- Fill out and submit the form
- Receive a confirmation message of request receipt
- Which is then referred to the concerned administration for review. The applicant will be notified of the result within five working days
Open data requests can be tracked through the contact us page.
Consultations for the Ministry can be viewed through the Tafaul platform.
Responsibilities of Open Data Users:
- Visitors and beneficiaries of the digital portal of the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing and its services should review the policy for using that data to know any updates made to it, and understand that all open data available on the Ministry's digital portal is informational.
- Reading the policy or using open data on the digital portal is an acknowledgment by the user of commitment to the provisions and conditions of the open data reuse policy.
- The Ministry allows portal users to view open data, and they have the right to use this data at their own responsibility, and this right is guaranteed to all beneficiaries free of charge.
- The open data user is responsible for reusing the data on the Ministry's digital portal, and reuse of this data should not result in any errors related to the content of the data, its source, and its date.
Ministry's Responsibility:
The Ministry does not guarantee the continued availability of this data in whole or in part. The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing:
- Is not responsible for any errors or missing data in the open data
- Is not responsible for intellectual products, studies, or reports based on this data
- Is not responsible for any harm or misuse suffered by any entity, individual, or any body as a result of using published data
- Does not assume any responsibility toward users of this data and any harm or loss they may suffer due to its reuse
Conditions for Reusing Open Data:
- The user should not distort the open data published on the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing's digital portal.
- Open data published on the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing's digital portal should not be used for political purposes or to support unlawful or criminal activity or in racist or discriminatory comments or incitement or negative influence on culture or equality or incitement or any irregular activity or in violation of the Kingdom's customs and traditions.
- The source of information that has been reused should be indicated by placing a link to the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing's digital portal to preserve the intellectual property of the data and its credibility and the accuracy of its sources.
- Reusing open data on the Ministry's digital portal is the user's responsibility, with the necessity of not making any errors when reusing this data related to the content of the data, its source, and its date.
- Data should not be used in a way that suggests that the user is an official entity or that they have been authorized to publish that data specifically.
- Reading the policy or using open data on the digital portal is an acknowledgment by the user of commitment to the provisions and conditions of the open data reuse policy.
License:
Open data issued from the Balady platform and published on the Saudi Open Data Platform are licensed under the Creative Commons License.
Related legislation:
- Open Data Policy: Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
- Data Freedom Policy: Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
- Digital Transactions System : Communications and Information Technology Commission
- Information Crime Prevention System : Communications and Information Technology Commission
- Basic Cybersecurity Controls : National Cybersecurity Authority
- National Data Governance Policy : Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing provides open data to all its visitors in support of transparency and to promote digital engagement through the open data platform in multiple formats that facilitate its processing and reuse.
Saudi Open Data Portal
You can view the Ministry's open data through the Saudi Open Data Portal.
TechHub APIs
A digital portal affiliated with the National Housing Company (NHC) that provides secure, responsive APIs, enabling partners and developers to perform direct technical integration and use smart real estate solutions.
| No. | Dataset Name | Main Open Data Domains | Sub Open Data Domains | Data Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Employee Events, Secondment, and Transfer Movement | Administrative Affairs | Human Resources | Annual |
| 2 | Movement of Mayors During the Year | City Resources and Needs Management | Performance Management | Annual |
| 3 | Annual Growth of Municipal Revenues | Assets and Investments | Investment Management | Annual |
| 4 | Municipal Service Offices | Assets and Investments | Assets | Annual |
| 5 | Environmental Sanitation Activities | Environmental Sanitation | Public Health | Annual |
| 6 | Swamp Backfilling Activities | Environmental Sanitation | Public Health | Annual |
| 7 | Cleaning Services | Environmental Sanitation | Cleaning | Annual |
| 8 | Deaths Buried Under Municipal Supervision | Environmental Sanitation | Burial and Cemeteries | Annual |
| 9 | Livestock Slaughtered Under Municipal Supervision | Environmental Sanitation | Public Health | Annual |
| 10 | Dengue Fever Control Activities | Environmental Sanitation | Public Health | Annual |
| 11 | Rainwater Drainage and Flood Risk Mitigation | Infrastructure | Floods and Disasters | Annual |
| 12 | Cultural Centers | Infrastructure | Public Facilities | Annual |
| 13 | Celebration Squares | Infrastructure | Public Facilities | Annual |
| 14 | Municipal Sports Fields | Infrastructure | Beautification and Landscaping | Annual |
| 15 | Municipal Plazas | Infrastructure | Beautification and Landscaping | Annual |
| 16 | Public Parks and Recreational Areas | Infrastructure | Beautification and Landscaping | Annual |
| 17 | Planted Trees | Infrastructure | Beautification and Landscaping | Annual |
| 18 | Public Restrooms | Infrastructure | Public Facilities | Annual |
| 19 | Preparation and Cemetery Services | Infrastructure | Public Facilities | Annual |
| 20 | Road Lengths and Lighting Poles | Infrastructure | Public Road Services | Annual |
| 21 | Implemented Parking Facilities | Infrastructure | Public Facilities | Annual |
| 22 | Construction Permits | Licenses and Certificates | Licensing | Annual |
| 23 | Commercial Activity Licenses | Licenses and Certificates | Licensing | Annual |
| 24 | Performance Indicators of Licensing Activity Requirements | Licenses and Certificates | Licensing | Annual |
| 25 | Approved Land Subdivision Plans | Urban Development and Planning | Urban Planning | Annual |
| 26 | Approved Local, Guideline, and Detailed Plans | Urban Development and Planning | Urban Planning | Annual |
| 27 | Visual Distortion Treatment Activities | Urban Development and Planning | Urban Planning | Annual |
| 28 | Street Naming and Numbered Properties | Urban Development and Planning | Urban Planning | Annual |
| 29 | Food Confiscations | Inspection | Health Inspection | Annual |
| 30 | Health Inspection | Inspection | Health Inspection | Annual |
| 31 | Laboratory Activities | Inspection | Health Inspection | Annual |
| 32 | Scholarships | Administrative Affairs | Human Resources | Annual |
| 33 | Training Courses – Seminars – Conferences – Workshops | Administrative Affairs | Human Resources | Annual |
| 34 | Internal and External Working Committees | External Relations | Government Relations | Annual |
| 35 | Owned and Leased Buildings | Survey and Lands | Government Properties | Annual |
| 36 | Allocation of Government Lands | Survey and Lands | Lands | Annual |
| 37 | Land Affairs | Survey and Lands | Lands | Annual |
| 38 | Land Grants | Survey and Lands | Lands | Annual |
| 39 | Expropriation | Survey and Lands | Government Properties | Annual |
| 40 | Contractor Classification | Contractors and Engineering Offices | Contractor and Engineering Office Classification | Annual |
| 41 | Awareness Programs, Booklets, and Publications | City Marketing | Media | Annual |
| 42 | Financial and Budget Data | Finance and Budget Affairs | Financial Planning and Performance | Quarterly |
It contributes to encouraging innovation and developing complex applications to integrate and synthesize information from different sources by making the data published by the ministry available to the portal's surfers and contributes to introducing the efforts and services provided by the ministry in improving the quality of services provided, improving the urban landscape and contributing to providing adequate housing for citizens, and the ministry provided a page for open data for portal visitors and beneficiaries, believing in the principle of transparency and keenness to provide data in order to encourage electronic participation, which enables beneficiaries to benefit from data. Available in different formats and used as needed.
The Data Integration Requirements document provides a detailed form that defines integration requirements such as scope and data integration model to illustrate the mechanism of use.
To view the technical file of the integration model
To get open data through programming interfaces
apiservices.balady.gov.sa/v1/momrah-services/open-data