The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.

• census
• reports

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits
• Indicators

Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data schemas and standards

Ranking Digital Rights's inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard reveals that telecom companies, despite being gatekeepers of the internet for most of the world, are less transparent overall and more susceptible to government demands than their Big Tech peers.

• reports

• Evaluate impact
• Digital rights
• Connectivity

The E-Government Development Index presents the state of E-Government Development of the United Nations Member States.

• United Nations

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Evaluate impact

A country’s EPI reflects the e-participation mechanisms that are deployed by the government as compared to all other countries.

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

The 2023 edition of the “IPIC – Portuguese Municipal Councils’ Online Presence Index” series of studies presents the results of the evaluation of Portuguese municipal councils’ websites.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Peer-reviewed research
• Report cards and audits

The Index will enable civil society to work together with national and regional parliaments to identify systemic challenges to achieving parliamentary openness and to co-create reforms that will strengthen the capacity of parliaments to enhance their openness.

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Evaluate impact
• Reports

The EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses

• reports

• Media and social media analysis
• Report cards and audits
• Research tools

Power Hog offers tools for monitoring computer energy consumption, focusing on process analysis, central data collection for optimization, and CO2 data submission.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Responsible consumption and production

• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators

Energy ID benchmarks open source software for energy, CO2, and Green Software Foundation's SCI metrics using the Green Metrics Tool.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Build something
• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators

The Open Energy Badge displays energy/CO2 costs for GitHub projects, covering test runs, API calls, and more, created by Green Metrics Tool.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Report cards and audits
• Indicators
• Carbon calculators

The Green Metrics Tool is a holistic framework to measure the energy / CO2 of your application.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators

Our Machine Learning model for energy measurement in the cloud, for both virtualized and bare metal environments.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Build something
• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators

Eco-CI calculates the energy consumption of your CI/CD environments, supporting GitHub and GitLab.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Responsible consumption and production

• Build something
• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

• informal settlements
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

This year we assess the AI readiness of 193 governments across the world. We are also introducing an interactive map to make our data more accessible!

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Report cards and audits

“Lokalni Index Otvorenosti” je kompozitni indikator koji mjeri stepen otvorenosti lokalnih samouprava prema građanima u Bosni i Hercegovini.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Report cards and audits

The goals are to oversee the congress, eliminate inadequate legislators and improve congress culture.

• LINE

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Individuals is designed to assess an individual’s level of development in understanding critical elements of cultural safety and working to create culturally safe experiences with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals

• indigenous
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Report cards and audits

Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Communicating with the people

We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.

• CTFG partners

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Black communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.

• racial equity
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Report cards and audits

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Report cards and audits

Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Report cards and audits

Performance Tracker reviews the state of nine public services – general practice, hospitals, adult social care, children’s social care, neighbourhood services, schools, police, criminal courts and prisons – and their comparative and inter-connected problems.

• Govtech
• Report cards and audits

We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.

• Voting and elections
• Report cards and audits
• Social media

The index compiles news sites with low factual-reporting levels, as determined and documented by Media Bias/Fact Check.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Report cards and audits

A global map ranking countries by their Freedom of Information laws

• free speech

• Civic maps
• Freedom of Information
• Report cards and audits

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories

• Report cards and audits

The EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the next 18 months.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Report cards and audits

People Powered's independent expert committee scored 26 of the top digital engagement platforms

• Digital participation platforms
• Report cards and audits

Climate Emergency UK assessed plans according to 28 questions across nine sections, based on the expert-approved checklist for Council Action Plans.

• Climate action
• local

• Report cards and audits

Comparison of online social benefit platforms for all 50 US states

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

Grades how Chicago and Cook County government agencies share important meeting information like agendas, minutes and schedules with the public

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

The Bus Turnaround Coalition is a diverse group of New Yorkers determined to turn around the poor service that plagues the city’s bus system and the more than 2 million rides taken on it every weekday.

• mass transit

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Report cards and audits

The Open Data Barometer for Latin America and the Caribbean covers 24 countries and classifies governments according to readiness for open data initiatives, implementation of open data programs, and impact that open data is having on companies, politics and civil society.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

Greenpeace's climate report card that encourages users to thank or shame candidates based on their position

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

Tracking promises made by governments

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

In this audit, we obtained an understanding of the Commonwealth’s current IoT environment in terms of device use and planned use by surveying a sample of Commonwealth agencies (see Appendix) where we believed IoT devices were used for significant purposes.

• state

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

Using 311 Data to Drive Change and Manage Performance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact

Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact
• Digital rights