ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT IN BRAZIL - Evaluating Brazil Initiative

Giovanni Bogea Viana, Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo

2011

Abstract

This article presents an overview of a major e-government site in Brazil, the Transparency Portal, and makes a comparison with electronic government of some other countries, in order to assess the degree of accessibility of each site. To obtain the results, the validation tools ASES, DaSilva and TotalValidator were used to evaluate the sites based on e-MAG, WCAG v1 and WCAG v2. A survey with entities, NGOs and ordinary users is also presented, and aims at evaluating the Transparency Portal according to criteria such as navigation and ease of use. These assessments will be used as suggestions for improving the Brazilian site and make it easier to use and accessible to a greater number of citizens, regardless of educational level and specific needs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bogea Viana G. and Felgar de Toledo M. (2011). ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT IN BRAZIL - Evaluating Brazil Initiative . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-56-0, pages 245-253. DOI: 10.5220/0003493502450253

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis11,
author={Giovanni Bogea Viana and Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo},
title={ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT IN BRAZIL - Evaluating Brazil Initiative},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2011},
pages={245-253},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003493502450253},
isbn={978-989-8425-56-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT IN BRAZIL - Evaluating Brazil Initiative
SN - 978-989-8425-56-0
AU - Bogea Viana G.
AU - Felgar de Toledo M.
PY - 2011
SP - 245
EP - 253
DO - 10.5220/0003493502450253