O futuro da memória digital na administração pública federal brasileira

Abstract

The object of this research are the preservation policies of digital public information from government. It falls in a context related to the debates on public information policies of the Brazilian government and it assumes that it is not possible to provide continued access to born digital information without association to records management and digital preservation. It does a political analysis of the implementation process of the Lei de Acesso à Informação, n°. 12.527, November 08, 2011 (LAI) in the Federal Executive Branch. It also identifies and discusses the context, the responsibilities and the established relationships between the concerned actors - Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU), Arquivo Nacional (AN) and Conselho Nacional de Arquivos (CONARQ). The exploratory research on the CGU website identified relevant information about the actions and programs planned to be developed by CGU within the archival policies. In addition correlated LAI legislation and 730 news collected on Google were analyzed to identify speeches and arguments of political actors involved in it and to know about the context in which the brazilian government information policy is developed. It concludes that the lack of mechanisms defining the responsibilities of each actor implies in the absence of a public policy that does ensures that archival policies are really part of the links that comprise the chain of contemporary information policy. It also concludes that the LAI is in compliance with archival policy, but there is not regulation of the responsibilities of each actor in the political process concerned to the deployment of LAI, bringing risks for the constitution of digital legacy for future generations.