Abstract This study helps to fulfil a research gap pointed out by Cunha and Miranda (2013) when exploring the social consequences created by the adoption of Digital Governance best practices within Brazilian public authorities and educational foundations. Therefore, the study both measures and describes the level of Digital Governance (DG) in 108 entities that act throughout the country, using a factorial structure that was previously validated. By measuring the entities’ DG levels, we have generated a group of organizational scores listed in a ranking and, using this unidimensional statistic scaling, we arranged the entities based on their DG performance levels. We describe a four-level distribution (A, B, C and D) throughout the Brazilian territory. The Brazilian South-Eastern region concentrates the highest number of entities. However, the Central region has the highest proportion of level “A” entities (with the highest DG levels). The results point out that the largest gap on achieving Digital Governance in Brazil lies in the adoption of mechanisms for social participation on the websites, such as feedback and popular consultations tools. Evidence shows that this is a political-managerial gap, associated with the implementation of e-democracy.