Methodology
The system scores governments based on whether an independent AI can understand public activity using public information.
- It does not score ideology.
- It does not endorse or oppose governments.
- It measures navigability, documentation, timeliness, accessibility, completeness, traceability, and explainability.
How a run works
- Resolve the government and its major institutions.
- Discover and monitor official public sources (budgets, procurement, audit, statistics, parliament, news).
- Capture documents, preserving historical snapshots — old versions are never overwritten.
- Extract structured civic events (allocations, tenders, awards, audit objections).
- Link records into a knowledge graph where evidence supports a relationship.
- Attempt a bank of civic transparency questions against the collected records.
- Score six dimensions from observable signals, each with a written explanation.
The six dimensions
Documentation
How much expected public information is actually published?
Published budgets, audit reports, procurement notices, contract awards, project reports, statistics, laws, historical archives — and expected documents that are missing.
Timeliness
How quickly is information published after relevant events?
Publication delay, last-updated dates, stale datasets, late annual reports, missing quarterly reports, delayed award notices.
Accessibility
Can machines read and process the information?
HTML/CSV/API availability, scanned PDFs, broken links, captcha barriers, inconsistent formats, missing metadata, unstable URLs, language barriers.
Completeness
Is spending linked to projects, contracts, and outcomes?
Budget-to-project, project-to-tender, contract-to-vendor, contract-to-payment, and project-to-outcome linkage.
Traceability
Can public money be followed through the system?
Whether allocations, contracts, vendors, payments, and resulting assets can be traced as an unbroken chain. One missing link breaks the trail.
Explainability
Can the AI explain where money went and why decisions were made?
Successful answer rate on civic questions, citation coverage, confidence levels, missing evidence, contradictory records.