Accessibility to public information: an evaluation of an services and information portal of Brazilian Federal Government

Autor: Georgete Medleg Rodrigues, João Batista Simão
Jazyk: portugalština
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Repositório Institucional da UnB
Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
instacron:UNB
Ciência da Informação, Vol 34, Iss 2 (2006)
Ciência da Informação, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 81-92, Published: AUG 2005
Popis: A premissa central deste artigo – parte de uma pesquisa de mestrado – e que, sendo a Internet um poderoso instrumento tecnologico para a disseminacao e o acesso as informacoes, os governos a tem utilizado como uma forma de aproximacao dos cidadaos. Buscando avaliar seu alcance efetivo, avalia-se o Portal de servicos e informacoes do governo brasileiro com base na metodologia de Vilella (2003), que envolve 73 criterios, agrupados em 14 parâmetros distribuidos em tres dimensoes: conteudo, usabilidade e funcionalidade do portal. Como ferramenta de analise foram utilizados tres tipos de software, durante periodo de tempo predeterminado, atribuindo-se notas a cada dimensao para avaliar seu grau de aprovacao. Os resultados apontaram os pontos fortes e fracos do Portal; as notas baixas atribuidas a forma de apresentacao do conteudo, atualizacao e manutencao do conteudo; equilibrio nas notas referentes a usabilidade, ressaltando-se, porem, nesse caso, as dificuldades no acesso para pessoas portadoras de necessidades especiais. Palavras-chave Portais; Governo eletronico; Avaliacao de portais; Portais de informacoes e servicos publicos. Accessibility to public information: an evaluation of an services and information portal of Brazilian Federal Government Abstract The central premise of this article – part of a Master thesis – is that the Internet is a strong technology tool for the access to and the dissemination of information. That is why government bodies have been using it as a form of approaching citizens. Based on this premise, and in an attempt to evaluate its effective reach, the Services and Information Portal of the Brazilian Federal Government is assessed on the basis of Vilellas´s methodology (2003). This methodology comprises 73 criteria, which are grouped under 14 parameters. These parameters, in its turn, are divided into three dimensions, namely, content, usability and functionality. During a pre-established period of time, three different types of software were used as assessing tools, and marks were attributed to each dimension in order to evaluate its degree of approval. Research results pointed to both strengths and weaknesses of the Portal. Firstly, the low marks given to the form of the content presentation, updating and maintenance. Secondly, a balance in usability marks, underlining, however, the difficulty for citizens with special needs to access the Portal. Keywords Portals, E-Government; Evaluation of portals; Information and public services portals.
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