Report

We measured fifteen Colombian state entities. Transparency scored zero

A small group training at computers.

Key takeaways

  • No one governs yet; some already manage: the national ceiling (a technical agency at 3-3-2-2-1-2) is reachable with existing state capabilities.
  • All fifteen profiles share the same shape, without a single exception: governance and data above transparency and use. Cross-cutting interventions beat entity-by-entity plans.
  • Four missing obligations explain the transversal zero — and they cost four administrative acts.
  • The instrument survived the field: documentary assessment, days per entity, a reply protocol that worked (seven entities supplied evidence that changed items).
  • The measurement is replicable in any country of the region with transparency portals.

Colombia's first institutional AI capability benchmark: capability lives in the technical arms and is missing in the sector heads, and twelve of fifteen entities sit at absolute zero on transparency.

The full document is currently published in Spanish; an English edition is prepared when demand warrants it. The Spanish record carries the complete summary and contents.