Paper Info
Title
Using parliamentary Brazilian open data to improve transparency and public participation in Brazil
Abstract
Government concerns about transparency date from 1957, but current technological advances and real-time worldwide communications hold great promise to transform accountability, transparency, citizen participation and collaboration, in addition to offering better public services, by increasing efficiency and effectiveness and decreasing corruption in government. With these goals in mind, this paper describes Meu Congresso Nacional (My National Congress), a first prize winner application developed during the First Brazilian Parliament Hackathon focused on parliamentarians transparency by obtaining and analyzing data from several sources and displaying them on a user-friendly website. In addition, based on this development experience, this paper discusses the difficulties and challenges of developing applications based on Brazilian government data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2612733.2612769
DG.O
Keywords
Field
DocType
e-government,open data,experimentation,human factors,digital society,documentation,measurement,government,open government,transparency,e government
Public administration,Transparency (graphic),Open data,Economics,Public participation,Public relations,Open government,Accountability,Parliament,Corruption,Government
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.76
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Santos Brito1386.79
Misael dos Santos Neto280.76
Marcos Antônio da Silva Costa3121.17
Vinicius Cardoso Garcia429834.17
Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira573976.59