TRANSPARÊNCIA NA ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA: Uma avaliação do portal eletrônico de transparência da prefeitura de Cuiabá-MT

Abstract

In the current Brazilian scenario, there has been recurring discussion on governance, transparency and accountability. This fact evidences the relevance of social control, so as to enable the citizen to monitor, know, question and act as a taxpayer in the application of public resources. Transparency then becomes a social instrument to combat corruption. In this way, the present study aims to evaluate the electronic portal of transparency of the city of Cuiabá regarding its degree of transparency, as well as the fulfillment of the requirements of the legislation of access to information. The research has a mixed approach and is characterized as exploratory objectives and technical procedures such as bibliographicaland documentary, and is operationalized through secondary data that include official documents, institutional electronic pages and scientific publications. As a result, it has been identified that, since 2017, the city of Cuiabá has received institutionalefforts to fully comply with the rules of transparency and, therefore, is assessed with a high degree of transparency, but the means implemented to enable social control still they need investments to better serve the taxpayer.

Keywords

• Electronic government
• Transparency Portal
• Evaluation