In early 2019, RDR began the process of revising and expanding the methodology for the 2020 RDR Corporate Accountability Index to address the human rights harms associated with companies’ use of targeted advertising and algorithmic systems, and to widen our scope to include new types of services offered by Amazon and Alibaba. Since then, we have published a set of draft indicators that address companies’ targeted advertising policies and practices and their development and use of algorithmic systems, and we released the results of a pilot study of these indicators.
Today, we are excited to share a draft of the full 2020 RDR Index methodology and open it for public feedback. In order to facilitate this input, we have broken down the consultation documents into three PDFs that can be downloaded from the following links:
- Summary of proposed revisions to the 2020 RDR Index methodology
- Draft version of the 2020 RDR Index methodology
- A table comparing the 2019 RDR Index indicators to the draft 2020 RDR Index indicators
Feedback on the draft methodology should be sent to methodology@rankingdigitalrights.org by May 15, 2020.
Our team will also conduct focused outreach to companies, human rights experts, civil society organizations, and other key stakeholders in the coming weeks. These consultations will help inform our decisions regarding the final 2020 RDR Index methodology.
We plan to publish the final 2020 RDR Index methodology, including the list of companies and services that will be included in the ranking, in early June.
We welcome input from all stakeholders!
