Analysis of Open Government Data initiatives in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Bittencourt, Cinthya Alcantara
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/29768
• topic: Open Data; Open Government Data; Democracy; Electronic Government; Transparency; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

The Open Data movement has been growing worldwide over the last decade following the crescent data production and technological evolution. This movement use Information and Communication Technologies to provide data in an available, interoperable, license-free, reusable and accessible way to everyone. The Open Data applied to government data relates to a subset called Open Government Data and has the potential to support better decisions and make governments more transparent, efficient, and accountable. Among some of the identified benefits that can be reached through Open Government Data are generate economic growth, motivate innovations, trigger social changes, stimulate citizen participation, thus promoting more democratic societies. The present study selected a set of Open Data requirements from the literature and characterized a collection of datasets from the main Brazilian Open Data government portals regarding their compliance with those requirements. The results showed that the analyzed datasets meet more than half of the requirements but are far from being fully compliant. These results can support government bodies in the identification of the gaps that need to be addressed to make Open Government Data initiatives more effective and harnessed to their full potential.