Marciele Berger Bernardes

Ranking dos tribunais de contas brasileiros: uma avaliação a partir dos padrões web em governo eletrônico

Nos ultimos 10 anos, o governo federal tem coordenado e articulado acoes visando a implementacao de projetos com enfase em iniciativas voltadas para o uso das tecnologias de informacao e comunicacao (TICs) em suas relacoes com os cidadaos, com o setor privado e com a sociedade em geral. Considerando um forte movimento em prol de inserir o cidadao no centro desse processo, este artigo busca, a partir de uma pesquisa quantitativa/qualitativa, verificar em qual estagio de evolucao encontram-se os sites governamentais dos tribunais de contas brasileiros. A partir dessa analise, foi possivel mapear pontos a serem melhorados bem como estabelecer um ranking dos sites, tendo em vista o direito de acesso, a disponibilizacao de informacoes, a participacao e o acompanhamento na execucao das politicas publicas.

Reference model and method of evaluation for smart cities in government portals: a study of the Portuguese and Brazilian reality

The urban issue is currently of great interest. The cities and its multiple socio-cultural and political manifestations have been acquiring, from the technological changes of Information Society, new in-struments for ensuring the quality of the future life of most of the world popula-tion, and this subject has been named in doctrine as Smart Cities. According to this, several organizations have been gathering efforts in order to monitoring the different dimensions of smart cities. It is thus of utmost importance to analyse the main (inter)national metrics and indicators for evaluating the levels of smartness of cities, with special focus in governance. For this, and based in bibliographic revi-sion and realização of conceptual proof, it is proposed an evaluation method that expresses the variables capable of enhanc-ing the intelligent governance in Govern-ment portals. From the research undertak-en, it may be verified that studies in this field are still incipient. On the other side, in spite of the knowledge of the limits of such approach, this method will serve as a new focus on the fiability of the commu-nication process between government and society and as source of consultation and evaluation of the intelligent governance. Finally, it is believed that tha periodical application of this method will allows, besides the monitoring and control of public policies, also the opening up of new ways of citizens participation.

Law of Access to Information: Case Study Between Brazil and Uruguay

The object of this article is to conduct a comparative study between legal provisions of the Brazilian Law of Access to Information no. 12.527/11 and the Uruguayan Law of Access to Information no. 18,381 / 08, in order to verify the differences and similarities between the two laws as well as to analyze the possible limitations and challenges surrounding. The methodology used was literature, with central research theme and technique research and literature review. The measurement results are that, even though the Uruguayan law is older than the Brazilian law, both of them have some limitations. It can be concluded that, even with difficulties implementation of laws on access to information in the Society Informational, these can be considered a milestone for the realization of democracy and a necessity the formulation of new public policies that can ensure that the goal of the main laws, being the access to the public information, can be actually effected.

Smart Cities, data and right to privacy: a look from the Portuguese and Brazilian experience

With the advent of the New Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the accelerated development of the urban centres, a new debate arises on how to use ICTs to enhance the development of cities and to make them smarter, in the way that theory has been pointing out as smart and human cities. In this sense, cities became big urban centres collecting data and the new possibilities arising out of it, such as the Big Data and other innovations such as the Internet of the Things (IOT) changed the scenario in terms of personal data. Thus being, this paper was oriented by this research question: how do public administrations deal with the treatment of personal data? For answering this question it was developed a framework whose primordial aim was to evaluate to what extent the Smart Cities projects adopt measures to ensure that the citizen has control on the data collected by the Administration (Digital Sovereignty). For the elaboration of this study it was used the method of monographic procedure, making essentially use of the research technique based on relevant literature review on Smart Cities, Governance and Data Protection. To the employment of these techniques it was added the case study, confronting theory with the practice undertaken by Operations Centre of Rio de Janeiro (OCR) and Integrated Management Centre of Porto (IMCP) concerning the governance of collected users personal data. The preliminary results arising out of the application of an inquiry revealed that both OCR and IMCP do not present clear information on the treatment of the users data neither in government portals nor as feedback, since they did not reply to the sent form. From this it may be inferred that the proposed maturity model appears as a valuable auxiliary tool for managers in the development of public policies for smart cities with a focus on data protection. Besides that it is also useful to fulfil academic gaps and, mainly, for the legal / normative production on the subject.

Participatory Governance of Smart Cities: a study upon Portuguese and Brazilian government portals

This paper presents the results of the preliminary framework proposed by the authors for Smart Governance drivers. In this sense, the issue for research is the following: which are the requirements in order to reach participative governance in Smart Cities government portals? In search of reply to these questions it was proposed a model for electronic participation used as base in order to evaluate and analyze the level of participation promoted in government portals. For the elaboration of this study it was used the method of monographic procedure, based on relevant literature review on democracy, e-participation and cities governance. To this it was still added case studies, with application of a form (or inquiry aiming to confront theory with practice as occurs in government portals of the municipal level in Lisbon (Portugal) and Brasilia (Brazil). The preliminary outcomes of the inquiry revealed that the referred portals are using few technological tools, since they have been more intensely promoting aspects related to elementary levels (provision of information and online searches) and not so much aspects related to a human and responsive dimension. From these outcomes, it may be inferred that the proposed model may arise as a valuable auxiliary tool for managers in the development of public policies in smart cities, with special focus on the participative governance. Besides that, it is also valuable for fulfilling academic gaps and, mainly, for a legal / normative production on the subject.

Indicators for Smart Cities: Bibliometric and Systemic Search

With the advent of the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and the accelerated development of the urban centres, a debate arose on how to use ICTs in order to improve the development of cities in order to make them “intelligent”, what the doctrine has been calling smart cities - SC. Having this in consideration, this paper aims to search for the existence of studies analysing indicators for smart cities. The operationalisation of this work followed the structure of an original paper and focused in bibliometric and systemic analysis. This kind of work is useful as guideline for the development of projects, indicating new trends for future research and identifying the methods of research used in each area. From the research that was done it may be verified that studies referring indicators for smart cities are rather incipient, and for that reason it may be foreseen an opportunity for the development of new researches.

The Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Experience Using Digital Initiatives for the Co-production of the Public Good: The Case of the Operations Centre

In the scenario of technological changes that were introduced by the waves of globalisation and the construction of an Information Society, together with recent national distresses, Brazilian cities face the challenge of combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development. Having in mind this complex landscape, this article seeks to analyse the experience Rio Operations Centre (ROC) of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That purpose will be achieved through the review of bibliography and a case study, which will be conducted with the objective of confronting referred theory with the successful practices implemented in the (inter)national scenario. From the analysis of the experience in ROC, awarded “Smart City Expo World” at the Smart City Expo World Congress (Barcelona, Spain, 2013). Finally, it is believed that the contribution of this research proposal will impact issues of urban quality, such as housing, economy, culture and environmental conditions.

Popular participation and digital democracy: the experience of participative budget of the town hall of Braga (Portugal)

The current study intends to analyze the portal of the Participative Budget of the Town Hall of Braga (Portugal), aiming at verifying whether the referred site is an instrument capable of enhancing a new way of manifestation of democracy, exercised in the digital environment and based upon interactivity. The elaboration of this study is based in bibliographic research and case study of the referred portal, confronting the theory and the instruments of participative management developed at the Town Hall of Braga.

The Right of Access to Information in Portugal and Brazil and the Challenges of Its Implementation

With the advent of Information Society and the new Technologies of information and communication (ICT) and its use through Internet, the fundamental right of access to information gets a new dimension and allows the exercise of other relevant rights such as popular participation. Thus, we think that it is worth to elaborate a comparative analysis between the Portuguese law on the access to administrative documents (LADA) and the Brazilian law on access to information (LAI). For the elaboration of such study we used the method of monographic procedure, using the technique of research based in bibliographic revision. From the analysis undertaken we will try to identify and qualify the transparency and the effectiveness of access to information in both countries.

Ranking of Brazilian courts of auditors: an evaluation from the web standards in electronic government

Nos ultimos 10 anos, o governo federal tem coordenado e articulado acoes visando a implementacao de projetos com enfase em iniciativas voltadas para o uso das tecnologias de informacao e comunicacao (TICs) em suas relacoes com os cidadaos, com o setor privado e com a sociedade em geral. Considerando um forte movimento em prol de inserir o cidadao no centro desse processo, este artigo busca, a partir de uma pesquisa quantitativa/qualitativa, verificar em qual estagio de evolucao encontram-se os sites governamentais dos tribunais de contas brasileiros. A partir dessa analise, foi possivel mapear pontos a serem melhorados bem como estabelecer um ranking dos sites, tendo em vista o direito de acesso, a disponibilizacao de informacoes, a participacao e o acompanhamento na execucao das politicas publicas.