A informática como ferramenta de agilização e transparência na gestão local

Abstract

The technical evolution of informatic, its simplified use, as well as the diminution of price allow its use progressively in every sector of society. The informatic can be used as a powerful tool at local administration, because it can modernize and make work more agile and safer. Then we have the simplification of the procedures of attendance and the instantaneous supplying and access of information to the citizen; such fact ends up generating, consequently, the transparency of the public administration. To illustrate such fact, we chose a Municipal City Hall that has informatic tools that make possible the agility and transparency of the administration. We were careful on choosing as an example a City Hall that had a variety of ideas and that were able a great part of them to be applied on other cities. We try to show that the will and the determination on being transparent is an important factor so that the government can provide information that allow real analysis of the administration, and also contribute to the modernization and simplification of the process of the attendance to the citizen. The transparency of the public function is deeply democratic. The ones who exercise public functions must remember that they are first serving than being authorities, and that citizen is firstly in charge of his rights rather than being a passive and indolent individual. When we talk about public administration we have to talk about public service instead of public power: it is a matter of every citizen s awareness. With all human rights approved and guaranteed, until today persist the central problem: if people do not have information about their rights, they are not able to exercise them. Thus, the access to information becomes an absolutely primordial human right