Governança informacional na reforma do Estado: um estudo exploratório sobre política pública de acesso à informação governamental

Abstract

Informational governance is a developing formulation and is related to the full exercise of citizenship and the democratization of the public institutions. Its foundation is supported by the accountability concepts, governance, transparency and the use of the information, comprehending information as a social and instrumentation phenomenon. Its conditions make up the notion of transparency and are: the State articulation with the civil society and between the communication and the information, the convergence of information flux and technogical resources. The principle of the informational governance is the acknowledge of the right toaccess public and government information by the citizen. Being a right, it´s inevitable to define the State performance facing the guarantee of this right and consequently the instrumentation of the informational governance, comprehending that its instruments belong to the informational policies. The objective of this dissertation is to amplify the foundations of informational governance, possibilitating the a posteriori (later) development of an empiric identification research and evaluation of the informational governance. Its concluded that the information policy related to the instrumentation of the informational governance should beconstituted as public policy. The State exerts a significant role, as a regulator and provider of resourses, which makes easier the viability to the access to government and public information. But the State role must be under the civil society control, aiming to limit the use of the informational policy to the instrumentation of the States power itself, and directing it to the empowerment of the civil society.