Barriers to Transparency Increasing in the Brazilian Public Administration: Structural and Cultural Issues Or lack Of Strategy And Governance?

• Autor(a) principal: Luciano, Edimara Mezzomo
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Wiedenhöft, Guilherme, Pinheiro dos Santos, Fabio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Administração Pública e Gestão Social
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufv.br/apgs/article/view/5716
• topic: transparência; accountability; administração pública; governança digital; barreiras; Transparência

The government transparency process towards society, through information for accountability purposes, is more effective with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have been used to provide more efficient government services and, more recently, as a basis for Digital Governance initiatives, which goes beyond electronic services and involves citizen participation. The goal of this article is to identify barriers to the adoption of strategic objectives related to transparency according to the Digital Governance Policy recently launched by the Federal Government. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with managers of public organizations in a Brazilian state. A set of 13 different barriers was identified, and the ones with the highest number of occurrences were institutional, information quality, complexity of tasks, lack of political support, resistance of public servants in using ICTs and lack of trust in institutions.