So if I had a dashboard of political parties in North Korea, is it really a dashboard?
To me a dashboard should be regularly updated, having the possibility that a number or indicator could change at a regular interval... and for now I'll say regular is less than once per day.
Also in today's usage, a dashboard seems to mean more and more that it's customizable. Each user can add and remove controls.
So the real question is, if someone plans to update a few numbers every four hours, and users can't pick what they see, just coloring the values Red, Yellow, or Green doesn't make that a dashboard and doesn't call for an expensive license for dashboarding software.
(PS. Don't bother offer options for cheap/free dashboarding software. We already know who the vendor has to be. Not my choice, don't bother arguing.)