Acesso à informação e controle social

Abstract

Now a days the information has become relevant for enable citizens to exercise democracy and social control. In Brazil, the access to information is a right established by law. With the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution laws has been edited to make possible the transparency of government actions and the accountability. The government has created new mechanisms for providing public information to citizens, above all using internet. For this research, it was done a field work Mariana (Minas Gerais) city hall. It was aimed to know the means available that could make available of information relating to city, the kind of media used to make those information public, and the reports that were available to citizens. The research has showed that Mariana city hall have used the means of publication as determined by existing laws and fulfilling the requirements of the Court of Audit, Court of the State of Minas Gerais comptroller, general and the National Treasury Secretariat. However, through the survey, it was found that directors have access to public information, but for them the language used and reports available by public is not clear enough. It is very technical and because of that it is difficult to understand. It is a problem when it comes to the possibility of an effective social control from bellow.