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New perspectives for electronic government in Brazil: the adoption of open government data in national and subnational governments of Brazil

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Ricardo Matheus,

Manuella Maia Ribeiro,

José Carlos VazAuthors Info & Claims

ICEGOV '12: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

Pages 22 - 29

https://doi.org/10.1145/2463728.2463734

Published: 22 October 2012 Publication History

Abstract

The development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) enabled production of bases containing raw data which can be freely manipulated, filtered or being crossed to build new applications. These possibilities of using this raw data and its manipulation have been called Open Government Data (OGD). The aim of this paper is to present the State of Art of the Open Government Data in Brazilian National, State and Municipal governments. Some benefits that OGD have been promoted are: transparency promotion, and, improvements of social control and citizen participation. The methodology used is the literature review mainly about concepts of Open Government Data and three case studies about Brazilian governmental initiatives of OGD Portals. It was conducted an exploratory study of Brazilian initiatives National and Subnational governments that aims to verify the Brazilian level of OGD based on the eight principles of OGD and the five stars of open linked data, the last one was created by Tim Berners-Lee to measure the level of open data in websites. The final considerations reveal Brazilian initiatives adopt almost the entire principles of OGD. Further, the initiatives are in the third stage of a completely open linked data (three stars).

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    1. Computing in government
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