Public information transparency in Brazil: an analysis of the accessibility of Big Data for the study of the interfaces between climate change, productive changes and health

• Autor(a) principal: Maduro-Abreu, Alexandre
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Litre, Gabriela, Santos, Luciana dos, Avila, Kayton, Soares, Danny de Castro, Sátiro, Guadalupe Souza, Oliveira, Jessica Eloísa de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1690
• topic: Transparency of public information; Big Data; Law of access to information; Human health; Climate changes; Land use changes.; Transparencia de la información pública; Big Data; Ley de acceso a la información; Salud humana; Cambios climáticos; Cambios productivos.; Transparência da informação pública; Big Data; Lei de acesso à informação; Saúde humana; Mudanças climáticas; Mudanças do uso do solo.

The transparency of public information, a right that is entitled by law in Brazil, is the basis to generate adaptive knowledge in adverse situations, such as extreme socio-environmental vulnerability and its impacts on human health. This article evaluates the transparency of public information in three areas – i) human health, focusing on the Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS (Unifid Health System); ii) productive changes (land use indicators); and iii) climate changes (rain and temperature indicators) – using data from all the 5,570 Brazilian municipalities over the last 20 years. The experience of building a national database (Data Lake) from available information in public (or public-private) databases – DATASUS, MapBiomas, Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia – Inmet (National Institute of Meteorology), and Hidroweb of the Agência Nacional de Águas – ANA (National Water Agency) – confimed that, in practice, the accessibility of public information in Brazil suffrs from signifiant shortcomings. We include some recommendations for and how it could be improved so that the access rights to information becomes a more concrete reality for the Brazilian citizen.