Business intelligence systems as management, accountability and transparency tools for the government: The case of platform aquarius

Abstract

This paper shows the case of Platform Aquarius, a new Web-based Government Business Intelligence System (GBIS) to enable the public transparency with information on the public funding of research and development (R&D) in Brazil. This multidisciplinary project is an initiative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) to integrate data of federal government agencies in the field of science, technology and innovation (ST&I). Platform Aquarius has the tools necessary for the publication of Open Government data and the presentation of the essential managerial and analytics information in dashboards that are useful to the access of the average citizen in the Web. Important lessons can be elicited from the project, such as the complexity of data governance model necessary to deal with data of several science and technology federal agencies. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.