• Report cards and audits

Using 311 Data to Drive Change and Manage Performance

• Dashboards
• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact

The California Report Card was developed by the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative at UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Office of Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom. The California Report Card explores how smartphones and networks can enhance communication between the public and government leaders.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

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

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Govtech

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

• informal settlements
• housing
• cities

• 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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Indicators

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

• Government transparency
• Government Interoperability
• Report cards and audits

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. The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Organisations is designed to assess an organisation’s commitment to a level of development in embedding cultural safety.

• 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.

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

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.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

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

• Specific campaigns
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Regulation

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

• Access social benefits
• Govtech
• 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.

• Report cards and audits
• Govtech

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

• Report cards and audits
• Voting and elections
• 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

• Media
• 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. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime.

• Report cards and audits

PDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.

• Engagement tech
• Ideation
• Service alerts

This program enables you to submit comments about certain District agencies and view how District residents graded those agencies. The goal is to help you better engage with your government and help government agencies to improve the quality of their services.

• 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

Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy

• Indicators
• Report cards and audits
• Evaluate impact

A tool to track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Sustainable Development Goals

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Report cards and audits

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

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

Tracking promises made by governments

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Promise trackers

the digital efforts of European countries are visibly paying off

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Benchmarks

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.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

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

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Communicating with the government

Comparison of online social benefit platforms for all 50 US states

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Engagement tech

A global measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. Last published in 2016.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

Audit of U.S. states' agency spending records

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Budget explorers

The Going Digital Toolkit helps countries assess their state of digital development and formulate policy strategies and approaches in response. Data exploration and visualisation are key features of the Toolkit.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Govtech

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

Find great local banks and invest in growing your community. Our interactive map and bank report cards arm you with knowledge you need to make the right choice.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

The Elections Performance Index (EPI) compares election administration policy and performance across the states and from one election cycle to the next.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Civic data