Technological change and prospects for the democratic management of public policies

• Autor(a) principal: Vaz, José Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/63284
• topic: Electronic governance; cultural public policies; citizen participation; transparency and accountability; democratic public management.; Gobernanza electrónica; políticas públicas culturales; participación ciudadana; transparencia y rendición de cuentas; gestión pública democrática.; Governança eletrônica; políticas públicas de cultura; participação cidadã; transparência e accountability; gestão democrática.

This essay explores the prospects brought for the democratic management of cultural policies in Brazil by technological changes revolving around ubiquitous computing, mobility, digital convergence and increasing access to public data. It builds on ideas from Social Construction of Technology and explores the interaction between technology and social processes. Based on these ideas, the essay presents reflections about emerging possibilities of new technological artifacts for the democratic management of public cultural policies. These possibilities are studied in two ways. The first concerns the adoption of technology and its usage patterns. The second is related to the production processes of those artifacts. In the former, the paper analyzes the literature and examples from it and from a structured inspection of websites to explore emerging possibilities, either already delivered or potential ones. These possibilities are grouped under the following categories: participation in the management of cultural policies; sharing of data and information related to cultural management; and transparency and social control in the management of cultural policies. In the latter, the paper explores the emergence of new actors and processes of production of technological resources in civil society. The paper concludes by presenting a set of issues that deserve the attention of researchers in future works.