Estudo sobre o cumprimento da lei de acesso á informação nos portais eletrônicos dos Municípios do sertão da Paraíba.

Abstract

The expansion of the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in conjunction with e-government in the last decade has enabled a great interaction between citizens and public administration, giving efficiency in the provision of public services to society. The social demand for transparent government actions has become a means to reduce corruption, bureaucracy and promote public / political participation at the municipal, state and federal levels. Brazil has a long legislative history contained in the 1988’s Federal Constitution that contemplates issues related to the right of access to information; and only after the regulation of Law 12527/2011 - Access to Information Law, the goal of implementing the culture of access in public administration has become a viable possibility. The present research aims to verify if the Access to Information Law is fulfilled by the municipalities electronic portals of the mesoregion of Paraíba’s backlands. The procedures performed to achieve the initial purpose were, firstly, to identify the number and name of the municipalities that compose the mesoregion of the backlands of Paraíba. Later, each site of the municipalities was cataloged in a table through the Google online search engine and, following the methodology of descriptive and exploratory nature of qualitative approach of the research, a elaborated script containing 11 questions was used as an instrument for collecting data in accordance with the items contained in the third paragraph of article eight of Law 12527/2011. The results of the research were analyzed under three different perspectives: for municipalities with a population larger than 10 thousand inhabitants, for municipalities with a population less than or equal to 10 thousand inhabitants and for all municipalities in general. It was observed that, despite the fact that most of the electronic portals answered positively the existence of items as a search tool, use of the citizen's language, guarantee of authentic and correct information and facilitation of communication with the population via email and/or telephone, other requirements such as the constant updating of transparency portals, the availability of reports in various electronic formats and readable by machine, the minimum structuring of information and accessibility for people with disabilities, show a lack of compliance with the requirements of the Access to Information Law.