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access to public information, changes in public sector strategies
aiming to foster transformation of relations between state and
society. Moreover, it depends on a change in the central locus of
public organizations as interpreters of social needs” and also as
service delivery agents [17].
[30] argues that to achieve the goal of providing open government
records should be observed three fronts:
o Map of Youth and Adults School (EJA): map showing the
openings of adult education in public schools in Brazil;
o Tr3e: website that crosses over the information of
deforestation in Brazil;
o Open Parliament: website designed to facilitate access to
information about MPs in Brazil.
These civil society initiatives demonstrate how the issue is
increasingly taking up space on the agenda of organizations and
groups interested in using IT to promote democratic developments
in Brazil. Taken together with the emergence of new government
initiatives, these initiatives show a clear sign of an expanding
supply of OGD in the coming years.
Despite the existence of few theoretical and empirical data on
open government in Brazil, there is a clear expansion of national
experiences and discussions.
If we take the experience of Transparency Portal of the federal
government as a reference, it can be said that the ODNI has great
potential to accelerate the adoption of open government data
initiatives in the country. Its impact should go beyond the limits of
the Federal Government and stimulate initiatives at the
subnational level, by giving greater visibility to the idea of the
OGD, and by offering standards and roadmaps that may be
adopted by states and municipalities.
Besides the few public sites that adopt the open government data,
there is a law that deals with open data in known Freedom
Information Act, which regulate access to government
information as provided in the Constitution.
The Brazilian law on transparency emphasizes the information
technologies and communication (ICTS), in particular the
Internet, encouraging and requiring public organizations to make
the information on the World Wide Web. The internet is regarded
as a means of easy access and opportunities to reach a large
number of people.
Among the required data are public expenditures and the general
data for the monitoring of programs, activities, projects and public
works. There is an obligation of public agencies not only to
disclose such information, but also make them available so that
they are easily accessed, understood and updated.
Open government means that public data should be disclosed in
the most disaggregated level possible and in different formats.
Disclosure must attain the raw data which should be able to be
viewed on any type of machine for anyone who want to make use
of such data. Thus, the law has principles of open government
(even if not explicitly quote) for the dissemination of public
information.
Future additional studies would be useful for better understanding
demands for OGD and evaluate impacts of present and new cases
of OGD to promote transparency, social control and citizen
participation. In future studies, it would be also important to check
what are the challenges of Brazilian governments to achieve the
five stars.
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