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Access to Information Act requires open data

07/04/2012

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The Access to Information Act (Act 12.527/2011), which entered into force on May 16 and makes mandatory the disclosure of information requested by citizens to public agencies, representing more than in March for the transparency of public actions: it is also a moment that marks the beginning of a new relationship between society and government, with the cooperation of citizens in developing applications and services that can support the government in providing services. But to have effectiveness, we need the data to be placed on the Internet openly and in language easily understood, warned experts who participated in the panel on the Law of Access, in the 12th Wireless World, which is being held on Tuesday Monday (3) by Editorial Moment in Sao Paulo.
"The law creates a new culture, the transparency. In the information society and integrated systems, this culture is imposed on public bodies to take the information society to help strengthen social control, "said Allan Mansur, director of the National Association of Prosecutors. "The public issues should be brought to society. The rule is advertising, "he said. But that has effectiveness, it is necessary that the data have a clear format. "If a public agency to make information easily accessible format, will not be complying with the law, must be done in a clear, easily understood language," he said.

"With the Law of Access, secrecy is the exception, not the rule," recalled Edward Lucio Vieira Borba , the Technical Assistance Projects of the Bureau of Corruption Prevention and Strategic Information of the Comptroller General (CGU). "Secrecy is vital to the security of society and the State, but otherwise, it is not" enhanced. He recommended the use of technology to assist in the process of releasing the information. "It's expensive to structure the public and transparency passive machine is a new fact," he noted.

For this reason, recommended Borba, the information provided needs to be processed, "and so enter the open data." In the case of CGU, was created a system to access information that works in the cloud and which, he says, is evolving to have more interactivity, including among federal agencies.

Difficulties

The panel showed the difficulties of public managers in the implementation of federal law - that needs to be normalized by the states and municipalities - both in relation to a change in culture and in the construction of databases. Allan Mansur has shown that it is important to change the culture of the state issues relate only to the leaders and the need to organize public information. "We need to discuss internally how best to information flow. Sometimes we do not have a database and it's not created overnight, "he said.

The difficulties highlighted by Mansur was shown by Alvaro Gregorio, a consultant's advice for innovation in government, the Department of Planning of the State of São Paulo, to report on implementation of the Open Government state portal. The work began in 2009, but the site only went live at the beginning of the current government, yet only 37 databases open format. "For those who had nothing, it was much, but have been criticized for launching the portal with this restricted basis," he said. From there, the goal was to walk for collaboration, "but the government has the rite of decrees, laws, and things take longer." With the federal law on access to information, innovation team of the government of Sao Paulo found a loophole to increase open government. "We will have more open and, therefore, able to attract developers and programmers to develop applications for the government," he said.

The collaboration desired by the government of Sao Paulo, application development, has been demonstrated in practice by Daniela Silva, representative of Transparency Hacker movement, which emerged from a group of professionals of the House of Digital Culture. The group collaborated with the discussions during the course of the Law on Access to committees of the House and ended up having a portion inserted into the proposed law. It was exactly the part about open data, placed in a clear, in compliance with the Access Law. "We wrote a piece of a law, stating that the citizen has the right to access information in open formats", said Daniela.

Another collaboration of the movement was to create a site queremossaber.org.br, which gathers information requested by citizens, already making use of open data, and other services that encourage compliance.
(Wireless Mundi).



Source: Telesítese

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