Since June 2022 the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has published its own homework. It opened a draft 79-billion-baht budget for public comment, runs a catalogue of more than 900 datasets from 98 agencies, and operates openpolicy.bangkok.go.th, which tracks each campaign policy down to project and budget line. The scorecard is self-graded: four days before the June 2026 election the governor said 235 policies were done or under way against 216 promised. The data is downloadable rather than licensed — the group that visualised the budget had to request the files from city offices.
The administration reports 235 policies completed or in progress against the 216 promised in 2022 — a self-published figure, stated by the governor on 24 June 2026 during the re-election campaign he won four days later.
🎓 Lesson
Publishing a scorecard is the cheap half of transparency; licensing the data so outsiders can check it is the half Bangkok has not done.
Evidence🏛️ Official
Scale🏙️ City-wide
Sources
↗ Bangkok Open PolicyThe city's own policy-disclosure platform: policy list, project search and a line-item budget explorer. Blocks automated fetching (403); verified through indexed sub-pages and press that cite the URL.
↗ Open Government Data of BangkokThe city data catalogue itself. Blocks automated fetching (503, confirmed again by the managing editor). Indexed catalogue facets show datasets filed under 'License not specified', and no CC BY or equivalent deed was found in any source.
↗ Blognone — the budget released as machine-readable files20 June 2022: the budget released as machine-readable spreadsheets plus PDF summaries, linked onward to the national data portal, with open contracting announced as the next step.
↗ The Standard — the governor's policy roadmap (24 June 2026)Sentence-level source for the scorecard figure: 235 policies completed or in progress against a 216 target, and names openpolicy.bangkok.go.th as the place citizens can check it. Note the Thai wording is 'completed and in progress', not completed alone.
↗ Spring News — the policy platform in January 2026Confirms the platform was still current in January 2026, showing origin, process and results across 50 districts and nine budget categories for fiscal 2024-2025.
↗ WeVis and HAND Social Enterprise — Bangkok BudgetingCivic-tech reuse of city budget data, and the counterweight: the team obtained budget and procurement files by requesting them from the city budget office and community development office, not by downloading open data.
↗ BIGGO Analytics — the catalogue's developerThe contractor that built the catalogue for the city states 939 datasets from 98 organisations across 26 categories. The city's own PR channel has given 1,106 datasets; that page could not be verified, so the entry says more than 900.
