Name: DIRCEU FLAVIO MACEDO
Publication date: 08/10/2021
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| DALTON LOPES MARTINS | Examinador Externo |
| DANIELA LUCAS DA SILVA LEMOS | Presidente |
| LUCILEIDE ANDRADE DE LIMA DO NASCIMENTO | Examinador Interno |
Summary: The escalation in the opening of government data is a phenomenon originated from long debates about the modernization of the State, counting, nowadays, with several world governments publishing a vast informational content on the net. Based on this finding, the research is motivated to understand the challenges imposed on the public administration in publishing data in line with the open movement from the perspective of data portals. The objective of this research was to propose a governance model aimed at the quality of data published in a web environment, with a focus on making government informational resources available with scope, consistency, efficiency, and transparency. The methodology was the first result of the research, being presented as a scientific instrument divided into three stages. In the first stage, a bibliographical and documentary research was carried out, showing the historical background of the data opening movement, together with a current panorama of initiatives and stages of evolution, which led to the conduction of a pre-test in open data portals in the US, UK, Brazil, and Ireland, achieving as a result the definition of challenges for the opening of quality government data. Subsequently, these challenges served as input for defining the fundamental analytical dimensions to the proposition of the governance model. In the second stage, the maturity diagnosis for open data portals was exposed, also presenting the definition of the maturity levels that were used in the research. The diagnosis was validated on the same portals as the pre-test, with the final grades being presented and discussed. The validation results indicated that openness initiatives lack broader and more effective data policies, lack political commitment to put into practice formalized action plans, with little transparency in the execution of actions and insufficient social involvement in their formulation. In the third phase, the results were treated, generating the necessary inferences for the elaboration of the governance model aimed at data quality for network publication, which is based on the results obtained in the previous steps. The model will allow governments to build comprehensive and consistent data policies, mitigating publication barriers, and accordingly empowering and encouraging government technicians to publish higher quality data, benefiting the open movement and society.
