This report examines the impact of five popular chatbots and text-based AI services on the UK's information supply chain and democracy in real time.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

VoteClarity is a free, non-partisan civic intelligence platform — conceived and developed in California in 2026 by Monika Pauwels-Wysocka — that uses AI and a transparent ethical framework grounded in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights to evaluate elected officials against the oath they swore to uphold, producing clear, evidence-based accountability scores freely accessible to every voter.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Report cards and audits

O Índice de Transparência dos Portais Legislativos é um mecanismo de avaliação da transparência dos portais do Poder Legislativo.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency
• Evaluate impact

Veja como deputados e senadores estão atuando, compare suas notas e descubra quem realmente trabalha pelo Brasil.

• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Watchdogging government

Our comprehensive database analyzes banking and financial apps to reveal what data they collect and how they use it.

• Data visualization
• Digital security and privacy
• Dashboards

The RABET-V program is a rapid, reliable, and cost-effective approach to verifying enterprise technologies with standards updated based on industry best practices.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Report cards and audits

Section that runs security alerts and evaluates code quality on Github repos

• Cybersecurity
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Chaque ville de France, décryptée pour vous.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Dashboards

Canadian Government Accountability Dashboard

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government

The Metadata Quality Assurance is intended to help data providers and data portals to check their metadata against various indicators.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Open government data

Free walkability and pedestrian safety analysis for any street address globally, scoring streets using OpenStreetMap, satellite imagery, and open government data.

• Evaluate impact
• Civic maps
• Mapping

The ADL AI Index evaluates leading large language models (LLMs) on their ability to detect and counter antisemitic and extremist tropes and narratives.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact
• Governance of AI

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 government teams deliver better online services to the public through standards-based improvements.

• Govtech
• Data visualization
• Govtech vendors

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: Participation, Oversight, and Transparency

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Evaluate impact

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 realised or challenged.

• Evaluate impact
• Civic maps
• Reports

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.

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact
• Report cards and audits

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.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

Since 2001, the United Nations E-Government Survey has provided a comprehensive assessment of the digital government landscape across all 193 Member States.

• reports
• comparative
• city

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital transformation

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
• Evaluate impact

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

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

• United Nations

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

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

• United Nations

• Govtech
• Evaluate impact
• Digital transformation

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

• local
• census
• reports

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Civic maps

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.

• Evaluate impact
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• 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
• Research tools
• Report cards and audits

(with Isandla Institute)

• informal settlements
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

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

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

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

• Indicators
• 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

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

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

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.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

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

Freedom House's an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories.

• free speech

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators
• 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

• 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
• Policy
• Access to information

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
• Watchdogging government
• Consumer watchdogging

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 all UK councils on the actions they’ve taken towards net zero.

• Climate action
• local

• Evaluate impact
• Report cards and audits