🗞️ Our new blog is live!
Take a peak into the massive amount of work behind our data.
Our new blog shows what goes on behind the scenes to build our corporate accountability data repository.
We scoured the internet and analyzed 225 corporate reports alongside @walkfree to build the data behind their new Beyond Compliance report.
Here are some of our core observations:
▪️ The challenge of simply finding corporate disclosures given the absence of public registries
▪️ The reality of turning dense PDFs into structured, comparable data
▪️ Why human judgement still matters (a lot), even in the age of AI
▪️ Persistent gaps make it hard for workers, regulators, and civil society to understand what’s really happening in supply chains
This work is the core of Wikirate and often goes unseen.
Read our new blog to find out how Wikirate turns corporate reports, which are often hundreds of pages long, into structured and comparable data.
Find our Medium in the linktree in our bio
🇺🇳 Today is International Human Rights day and we want to highlight how Wikirate.org empowers changemakers through corporate accountability data.
Reliable and accessible corporate accountability data is essential to combat human rights violations in supply chains.
We work to empower our partners with essential data on human rights issues in value chains, sustainability data, and much more to spark change.
By building the world’s largest open and transparent data repository, we’re making a real impact to ensure that fundamental rights are upheld by companies.
#OurEverydayRights.
How do laws impact corporate due diligence reporting?
📰 Find out in our new blog post!
Ruby Jones and Zoey Jewell from the Australian National University researched how different legal frameworks impact the ways that companies report under due diligence laws.
“Our analysis finds that reports under both disclosure-based and due diligence laws focus heavily on commitments and remain superficial when reporting actual actions and impacts, often omitting critical information such as incident reporting, remediation, and the accessibility of whistleblowing channels for supply chain workers. HRDD laws, despite stricter requirements, deliver modest improvements in transparency.”
Find the link to our blog in our bio today!
📣 New Data on Wikirate.org!
We’ve added @bank.track ’s Global Human Rights Benchmark measuring how the world’s largest commercial banks stack up when it comes to respecting human rights.
🇺🇳 Looking at policies, practices, and business relationships, the Benchmark is built on the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Covering 50 banks across the world, the Benchmark helps investors, consumers, and civil society make informed decisions on their banking needs.
Check out the full dataset on Wikirate.org today!
🚨New benchmark alert! 🚨
How transparent are the largest public US companies when it comes to their political spending?
We’ve just added the annual CPA-Zicklin Index to Wikirate.org, the only measure of electoral spending transparency and accountability among the USA’s largest public corporations.
Developed by a partnership between the Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics and Research at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the benchmark measures three aspects of transparency and accountability:
◽ Disclosure of spending.
◽ Political spending decision-making processes.
◽ Board oversight and accountability policies.
Just last week, the team at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics and Research added the data from the 2025 report.
That means that Wikirate.org has data spanning from 2015-2025.
❓So how do the biggest public US companies stack up?
Check out the 2025 report here to find out and check out all the data on Wikirate.org!
✨ Our new Reporting Integrity Index has been added to two different repositories!
The Living Library and the DatenKatalog have both added the index, expanding our reach and boosting the index’s impact!
The Reporting Integrity Index measures how Germany’s top 50 companies perform when it comes to reporting integrity.
📣 Introducing the Reporting Integrity Index 2025!
Our new index ranks Germany’s biggest companies on how accessible and usable their non-financial reporting data is.
But you might be asking yourself: what do we mean by integrity in non-financial reporting and why is it so essential?
Reporting isn’t just about compliance - it’s also about how easy it is to find and use the information in the report.
Without being sure about the data at its source, how can we expect investors or civil society to trust the data in order to invest in or analyse the performance of companies?
This index highlights companies that are leading the way while providing essential good practices to continue pushing for corporate transparency.
Want to know more? Read the full report available in our linktree in our bio.
We’re committed to open and transparent corporate data. You can find the full dataset that goes into the report at Wikirate.org.
📣 Yesterday, we launched our 2025 Reporting Integrity Index!
Our new index ranks Germany’s biggest companies on how accessible and usable their non-financial reporting data is. Along with our key findings, we included key recommendations for companies to boost the power of their non-financial reporting data.
These include:
➡️ Ensuring discoverability: Reports must be easy to find and accessible on company websites and central databases so that stakeholders can find them.
➡️ Archiving past reports: Reports must be archived in a way that makes them easy to find over time and allows for comparability over time.
➡️ Standardization and metadata: Reports should follow standards and include essential information like reporting periods
Following these recommendations strengthens non-financial corporate reporting and is essential for transparency and accountability.
Want to know more?
Check out the full report and dataset here: /Reporting_Integrity_Index/
📣 Introducing our Reporting Integrity Index!
Our new index ranks Germany’s biggest companies on how accessible and usable their non-financial reporting data is.
Here’s what we found:
The good:
✅ 78% of companies have completed double-materiality assessments.
✅ 72% of companies secured at least some form of assurance for their non-financial data.
✅ 80% of companies reported doing supplier audits.
The bad:
⚠️ Only 22% of companies disclosed their lobbying budgets.
⚠️ Company performance is uneven and generally mediocre, with most scoring 4–6 out of 10 on best practice standards.
⚠️ Only 2 companies specify the report's data license and, disappointingly, make their data available under a closed license blocking extraction and reuse.
Want to know more? Read the full report available in our linktree in our bio.
We’re committed to open and transparent corporate data. You can find the full dataset that goes into the report at /Reporting_Integrity_Index_2025
🚨 🇩🇪 Coming soon: How accessible and usable is the non-financial data of Germany's top 50 companies?
To answer that question, we’ve developed the Reporting Integrity Index.
📅 The index launches October 8th and measures how transparent Germany’s biggest companies are when it comes to reporting their non-financial information.
We analysed Germany’s top 50 companies across 5 sectors to see who’s leading the pack and who’s falling behind. The sectors include automotive, chemicals, mechanical engineering, electrical, and military and defence.
The Reporting Integrity Index measures:
◻️ Non-financial reports’ accessibility
◻️ Referenced documents’ accessibility
◻️ Standardization and metadata
◻️ Content licensing
Although facing headwinds, the fight for corporate accountability and transparency is more important than ever.
Make sure to follow our social media channels and mark your calendar for the release of the Reporting Integrity Index!
We’ve built the world’s largest open corporate data repository and we’re just getting started. But to continue fighting for corporate transparency, we need your help!
📖 We wrote a blog post on why open data infrastructures are essential and talked about our plans for the future, which include:
- Improving our infrastructure
- Building a collaborative global network
- Adding data beyond corporate reporting
- Scaling our advocacy efforts
That sounds like a lot - and it is. Our vision for the future of corporate accountability data is ambitious, and that’s why we need your help.
🔗 Check out our blog in the link in our bio.
📣 Today, September 18th, is International Equal Pay day and we’re joining others in calling out for the need to continue taking steps towards equal pay for equal work.
According to the UN, women still only earn 77 cents for every dollar that men earn for the same work. This difference is even bigger for women with children.
At Wikirate, we’re fighting for equal pay in supply chains around the world.
Explore our pay gap datasets at Wikirate.org
#InternationalEqualPayDay, #EqualPayDay2025, #EqualPayForEqualWork, #CloseTheGap, #PayEquity
