Análise do Portal da Transparência da Prefeitura de Palmas como instrumento de comunicação e educação

Abstract

Access to public information is a right of all citizens guaranteed not only by the Brazilian legal system, but also by various international bodies, such as the United Nations, which consecrated the human being as a subject holder of rights by proclaiming, in 1948, Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Every citizen, therefore, has the right to information and the State has the duty to make it public and accessible. Thus, the State has the duty to guarantee everyone, without distinction, and not just the most literate, access to information, and to encourage participation and promote social inclusion as a democratic principle. In this context, this work presents the results of the research carried out on the Portal of Transparency of the Municipality of Palmas with the objective of analyzing its capacity to transmit information as a communication and education tool to the population of Palmas. The methodology used was based on a qualitative approach, in the form of a case study, combining the techniques of content analysis, through the focus group and document analysis. The results presented supporting evidence of the hypotheses formulated in this research regarding the access to the portal only by a specialized public. As for the legal analysis, the evidence showed that the Portal complied with 60% of the determinations provided for in Law 12,527/2011, Law on Access to Information, and in LC 131 of Complementary Law 131/2009, known as the Transparency Law.