Uma análise dos usos da lei de acesso à informação no Brasil em notícias do período de 2013 a 2015

Abstract

The dissertation deals with the uses of the Access to Information Act in Brazil (Law 12,527/2011) for the civil society in the period May 2013 to April 2015, based on a news content analysis collected through Google Alert , search engine free content on the internet. The research considers the relevance of the information as a structural element in the formation of national states. It also considers that the right to information has been recognized as a fundamental human right for the exercise of political, civil and social rights. The transparency of public information becomes an increasingly common issue in the relationship between state and civil society. The adoption of the access law in Brazil is the result of factors related to national and international political context and, it is believed that consolidation depends, among other factors, how the law will be used by Brazilian society. Based on an official classification of the National Statistics Office of Brazil (IBGE), the results indicate that the press and non-profit entities are the groups of civil society that is most exercising the right of access to public information, with interests aimed at social control, transparency of public information, among others. In spite of the difficulties, it can be seen in Brazilian society, both in the state and in civil society, actions to improve the right of access to public information, with signs of cultural change, to be confirmed in future researches.