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c i t i z e n s h i p a n d d i g i t a l n e t w o r k s
management, which considers factors such as accessibility and interoperability.
In this same document, Melhorando o Acesso ao Governo com o Melhor Uso da
Web, it is said that: “The current Web technology enables governments to share with
the public a broad variety of information in an unlimited amount, according to
the search. The technology is also available to allow the citizens to bring the questions
concerning them to the attention of the local, regional and national government.
However, exploring these possibilities within the governmental systems is a
challenge that includes environmental, political, legal and cultural aspects. Creating
an e-Government demands opening, transparency, collaboration and knowledge to
take advantage of the World Wide Web” 12 .
However, even though the governments make the open governmental data available
in the network, a systematic and radical utilization of this data in the society by
citizens interested not only in inspecting the government, but also in improving the
public services, influencing the management and increasing the scope of their rights,
actively participating in the political processes is necessary.
Giovandro Marcus Ferreira (2003), based on Breton and Proulx, states that “in
periods of crisis in the definition of individual and collective identities, the theme
of communication becomes particularly timely.” Quoting the book Une Societé de
Communication?, from sociologist Erick Neveu, Ferreira adverts that, in the conflicts
on the limits of the communication field, one runs the risk of constructing the myth
of a society in which all phenomena is analyzed as communicational. And highlights
the central role of the network, overall the Internet, in the description of new society
dynamics: “From this new landing of social functioning, the same society will
produce contradictory speeches. On the one hand, it shall praise its characteristics
of greater transparency, democratization of culture and policy, fomentation of the
autonomy of the social agents. On the other hand, it shall protrude the danger of
social control recapturing the descriptions of theorists (Tocqueville...) who alerted
to a new type of despotism” (FERREIRA, 2003: 255).
The discussion of the media is, then, made central. It is the transition of a public
sphere mediated by the mass media for a public sphere mediated by the networks
that generates a social and political context potentially transforming the concept o
transparency.
12. Ditto 2.
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