Abstract
With the advent of Information Society and the new Technologies of information and communication (ICT) and its use through Internet, the fundamental right of access to information gets a new dimension and allows the exercise of other relevant rights such as popular participation. Thus, we think that it is worth to elaborate a comparative analysis between the Portuguese law on the access to administrative documents (LADA) and the Brazilian law on access to information (LAI). For the elaboration of such study we used the method of monographic procedure, using the technique of research based in bibliographic revision. From the analysis undertaken we will try to identify and qualify the transparency and the effectiveness of access to information in both countries.
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The theory of New Public Management was proposed in 1992 by David Osborne and Ted Gaebler in their book “Reinventing Government”.
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NPS is established “upon economic concepts such as maximization of self-interest and internal demand of modernisation of the administration” [4], p. 26.
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Available in: <http://europa.eu/documentation/official-docs/white-papers/index_pt.htm>. Access on 10th March 2016.
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The above mentioned expression was created by the Non-Governmental Organisation - NGO Article 19. Available in: <http://artigo19.org/?p=40>. Access on 28th February 2016.
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Active Transparency refers to the minimal information that must be put, mandatorily, in the government portals, in accordance with the rule that information is the rule and secrecy is the exception [13].
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Passive Transparency refers to the information that is not available in the Service of Information to the Citizen, but that any interested person may get access to through an identified requirement that may be introduced via Internet; the motivation is not required [13].
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Available in: <http://www.rti-rating.org/country-data>. Access on: 10th March 2016.
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Reform of EU data protection rules. Available in: <http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/index_en.htm> Access on: 10th March 2016.
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Among the procedures judged by the Federal Supreme Court, it should be noticed Rcl 14530, Rcl 14733, Rcl 15350, SL 689, SS 4661, SL 630, SL 623, Rcl 14739, SS 4723 e SS 3902.
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For the full decision visit: <http://www.stf.jus.br/arquivo/cms/noticiaNoticiaStf/anexo/SL630.pdf>. Access on 1st March 2016.
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Law Proposal no. 13/2016 available at: <http://app.parlamento.pt/webutils/docs/doc.pdf?path=6148523063446f764c3246795a5868774d546f334e7a67774c336470626d6c7561574e7059585270646d467a4c31684a53556b76644756346447397a4c334277624445344c56684a53556c664d7935775a47593d&fich=ppl18-XIII_3.pdf&Inline=true>. Access on 05th May 2016.
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Our thanks to the CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, for financing this research, and also to the CIIDH-Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Human Rights, and to the Algoritimi Centre, both at University of Minho, for supporting this research. The work of Marciele Berger has been supported by CAPES under Grant Nº. BEX - 1788/15-9. The work of Paulo Novais has been supported by FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology within the Project Scope UID/CEC/00319/2013.
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Bernardes, M.B., de Andrade, F.P., Novais, P. (2016). The Right of Access to Information in Portugal and Brazil and the Challenges of Its Implementation. In: Chugunov, A., Bolgov, R., Kabanov, Y., Kampis, G., Wimmer, M. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 674. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49700-6_28
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