Monitora Santa Cruz: uma ferramenta web para auxiliar o cidadão no monitoramento dos gastos da Prefeitura de Santa Cruz do Capibaribe.

Abstract

According to the Transparency Law, information about public income and expenses should be available in real-time, with a maximum deadline of 24 hours, in a website commonly denominated Transparency Portal. Although data availability represents a step forward in a more transparent and auditable government by its citizens, data monitoring is still a complex task. The Transparency Portals are not obligated to make available any visualization that helps the users to inspect and understand the data, and for the specific case of the Santa Cruz do Capibaribe city, in the state of Pernambuco, the data is only available in the form of tables. Thus, for the majority of the people, it is not possible to extract any value or relevant information about the data. In this context, the present graduation conclusion work aims to empower the citizen providing a web application that makes the automatic acquisition of the expenses data available in the city’s Transparency Portal, consolidates the important information of that data, and provides multiple interactive visualizations that assist the task of understanding the expenses made by any citizens from all backgrounds.