Report cards and audits
This section provides systematic analyses to evaluate promises made by governments and other institutions, track the performance of programs, initiatives, or projects. Are they working? How well?
See also our AI Auditing category.
ADL AI Index
The ADL AI Index evaluates leading large language models (LLMs) on their ability to detect and counter antisemitic and extremist tropes and narratives.
ScanGov
ScanGov is a government digital experience platform that helps public agencies monitor, improve, and maintain their websites. The service combines automated scanning with clear guidance to help govern...
Open Budget Survey
First launched in 2006, the Open Budget Survey is the world’s only independent, comparative, and fact-based research instrument to measure these essential aspects of governance and accountability: Par...
CIVICUS Monitor
Our interactive world map allows you to access live updates from civil society around the world, track threats to civil society and learn about the ways in which our right to participate is being real...
Defining and evaluating political bias in LLMs
This post is the culmination of a months-long effort to translate principles into a measurable signal and develop an automated evaluation setup to continually track and improve objectivity over time.
AI Safety Index
The Future of Life Institute's AI Safety Index provides an independent assessment of seven leading AI companies' efforts to manage both immediate harms and catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems.
UN E-Government Survey
Since 2001, the United Nations E-Government Survey has provided a comprehensive assessment of the digital government landscape across all 193 Member States.
Generative AI Accountability Indicators (GAIA)
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-discriminatio...
The 2022 Ranking Digital Rights Telco Giants Scorecard
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 suscept...
E-Government Development Index
The E-Government Development Index presents the state of E-Government Development of the United Nations Member States.
E-Participation Index (EPI)
A country’s EPI reflects the e-participation mechanisms that are deployed by the government as compared to all other countries.
Civic Information Index
The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.
More and Better! Diversifying electronic participation mechanisms and improving the online services offered by Portuguese municipalities
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.
Africa Open Parliament Index (OPI)
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 stren...
Public Data Access Programs - A First Look
The EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses
Planning for Informality
(with Isandla Institute)
Green Metrics Tool
The Green Metrics Tool is a holistic framework to measure the energy / CO2 of your application.
Power Hog
Power Hog offers tools for monitoring computer energy consumption, focusing on process analysis, central data collection for optimization, and CO2 data submission.
Energy ID
Energy ID benchmarks open source software for energy, CO2, and Green Software Foundation's SCI metrics using the Green Metrics Tool.
Cloud Energy
Our Machine Learning model for energy measurement in the cloud, for both virtualized and bare metal environments.
Eco CI
Eco-CI calculates the energy consumption of your CI/CD environments, supporting GitHub and GitLab.
OpenEnergyBadge
The Open Energy Badge displays energy/CO2 costs for GitHub projects, covering test runs, API calls, and more, created by Green Metrics Tool.
Government AI Readiness Index
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!
Lokalni Index Otvorenosti
“Lokalni Index Otvorenosti” je kompozitni indikator koji mjeri stepen otvorenosti lokalnih samouprava prema građanima u Bosni i Hercegovini.
Citizen Congress Watch (CCW)
The goals are to oversee the congress, eliminate inadequate legislators and improve congress culture.
Cultural Safety Audit Tools
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 ex...
전국 공보 지도 (National Public Information Map)
Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.
Eticas
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 compl...
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
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.
The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide
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...
Tools for Thought Map
Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.
Institute for Government UIK Performance Tracker 2022
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 pri...
Experts grade Big Tech on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation
We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.
Iffy.news
The index compiles news sites with low factual-reporting levels, as determined and documented by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Global Right to Information Rating
A global map ranking countries by their Freedom of Information laws
Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index
The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories
EU Whistleblowing Monitor
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...
Digital Participation Platform Ratings
People Powered's independent expert committee scored 26 of the top digital engagement platforms
Council Climate Action Scorecards
Climate Emergency UK assessed all UK councils on the actions they’ve taken towards net zero. The 2025 Action Scorecard assessment consists of 93 questions or less, depending on council type, across 7...
Ranking Digital Rights
Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy
Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things
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...
Climate Primaries
Greenpeace's climate report card that encourages users to thank or shame candidates based on their position
Open Data Barometer Latin America and Caribbean
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 i...
Open Gov Report Card
Grades how Chicago and Cook County government agencies share important meeting information like agendas, minutes and schedules with the public
Bringing Social Safety Net Benefits Online
Comparison of online social benefit platforms for all 50 US states
Del Dicho al Hecho
Tracking promises made by governments
Project Drawdown
Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.
SeeClickFix Report Card
Using 311 Data to Drive Change and Manage Performance