Covid-19 Transparency Index
The Covid-19 Transparency Index is an initiative of Open Knowledge Brazil that aims to evaluate the quality of open data offered by regional governments, capital cities and the federal government of Brazil. To guarantee not only the existence of transparent data, but also its veracity and accessibility, the organization developed an index according to which it rates the data provided on case numbers, demographics, and infrastructure dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Three dimensions of the data are evaluated: content, granularity, and format, through 26 indicators. The data is then categorized on a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the highest level of transparency. Then, according to the ranges of values, the initiative qualifies the data transparency as "opaque", "low", "medium", "good", or "high". They also offer direct downloads from state and capital databases.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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