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Brazil Towards Government 2.0: Strategies for Adopting Open Government Data in National and Subnational Governments

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Open Government Data (OGD) is a stream in which raw data is published for manipulation by others. This chapter presents the State of Art of OGD in Brazilian National, State and Municipal governments, describing benefits that OGD have been promoted on governments and society such as transparency promotion, social control and citizen participation. In addition, strategies used by governments are outlined aimed at boosting usage and the creation of chain value of OGD usage. Exploratory research is conducted by investing websites in accordance with the eight principles of OGD and the five stars of open linked data. Brazilian initiatives adopt almost all the principles of OGD and are in the third stage of a completely open linked data (three stars). Further, the strategy used by governments is the usage of citizen’s participation on contests and hackathons improving usage of OGD available by governments and created several applications for social control, transparency and better provision of public policies (transport, health, education, etc.). This work also adds an element inexistent on the literature known: strategies of dissemination and incentive of open data usage. The results indicate the existence of virtuous cycle of information when using public policy of open data is aligned with the implementation of the collection, analysis and opening data for several branches of city hall, and even that little data, but organized, can offer the possibility of citizen conduct social control, suggest improvements of the public service through studies and applications connected to processes performed by the city and local economic development.

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  1. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, 2600 GA Delft, Jaffalaan 5, PO Box 5015, 2628 BX, Delft, Netherlands

    Ricardo Matheus

  2. School of Business Administration of São Paulo, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Av. 9 de Julho, 2029, CEP 01313-902, Bela Vista, São Paulo, Brazil

    Manuella Maia Ribeiro

  3. School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, Course of Public Policy and Management, University of São Paulo, Av Arlindo Bettio,1000, CEP 03828-000, Ermelino Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil

    José Carlos Vaz

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Matheus, R., Ribeiro, M., Vaz, J. (2015). Brazil Towards Government 2.0: Strategies for Adopting Open Government Data in National and Subnational Governments. In: Boughzala, I., Janssen, M., Assar, S. (eds) Case Studies in e-Government 2.0. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08081-9_8

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