Disseminação da informação governamental para a cidadania: o Portal da Transparência do Tribunal de Contas dos Municípios do Estado do Ceará

Abstract

Currently, information has a social value which makes it essential to all people who want to exercise their citizen role in society. The world is undergoing a profound change in his views after the Internet have entered the day-to-day almost everyone. Changed the way you communicate, how to relate to and also how the government may be closer to the people, encouraging greater participation of citizens in public accounts. Given these changes in 2004, Controladoria Geral da União (CGU) to increase the transparency of public administration, created the Transparency Portal of the Federal Government. Is created, so a new policy of making information available to government stamp which uses a tool / resource online. This citizen has the power to monitor what politicians do with public money and report, with the need. Thus, the dissemination of such information becomes easier, democratic, with low cost and with the guarantee of the possibility of access. Based on this experience, Tribunal de Contas dos Municípios do Estado do Ceará (TCM - EC) followed this technological and ethical. This paper aims to describe and disseminate general government information available at the TCM - EC to enable its use by civil society, contributing thus to its spread. The technical means used to carry out the research is to literature, articles, books, monographs, dissertations, theses and other materials on the Dissemination of Information, Social Control and the site of TCM. The method of reasoning used in the preparation of the research is based on the deductive method. As a result of the research are expected to contribute to the effective dissemination of such information, especially in the countryside, beyond the perception of their ranges.