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Assessing the benefits of open government data: the case of Meu Congresso Nacional in Brazilian elections 2014

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Kellyton dos Santos Brito,

Marcos Antônio da Silva Costa,

Vinicius Cardoso Garcia,

Silvio Romero de Lemos MeiraAuthors Info & Claims

dg.o '15: Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

Pages 89 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1145/2757401.2757422

Published: 27 May 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Open Government Data (OGD) and transparency has been recognized as having the potential to provide many benefits for the society at all, including governmental, scientific, commercial and political domains. However, much of the existing research discusses benefits on a high-level basis, and more empirical analysis is needed in order to analyze and assess the real impact of these initiatives. The objective of this paper is to analyze the benefits perceived by the general population of the use of applications based on OGD, especially the Meu Congresso Nacional, a website based on political OGD and broadly used by Brazilian citizens in the Brazilian elections in 2014. The analysis was based on a survey conducted with website visitors and concludes that, despite this kind of application not yet being popular, people consider them more useful than official government websites, able to help reduce corruption and even influence voting decisions.

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Assessing the benefits of open government data: the case of Meu Congresso Nacional in Brazilian elections 2014
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Computing in government
  2. Enterprise computing

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