Governo eletrônico no rio grande do norte: Uma avaliação de prefeituras municipais a partir de lei de acesso à informação

Abstract

In the context of so-called e-government, in which the government discloses services, information, programs and projects, through electronic portals, Brazil, in an attempt to ensure and promote the consolidation of transparency and democracy, enacted in 2011, The access to information law (LAI), regulating access to information in the country. So, considering that the creation of legislation is just one step in building a policy of transparency, this exploratory and descriptive study aims assess conformity in relation to LAI, city council's electronic sites of the Rio Grande do Norte state (RN), using the bibliographic research as a data collection tool and content analysis as the data analysis technique. As a result, it was found that e-government has been applied by the evaluated RN city councils, but many advances need to be made because of some non-compliances identified.