Monteiro, Alessandra

Transparency is a key to promoting participation, accountability and public sector development. In the area of education, these issues are essential to Brazil’s future prosperity. Federal institutions of higher education must comply with the active transparency statutes of Brazil’s new freedom of information law (12.527) by keeping their homepages updated and complete with the required information. However, some federal universities are not prepared to deal with the FOI law and still suffer from management problems accumulated over the years.

This study analyses compliance with active transparency statutes in 53 federal universities, examining the information published on the websites of public organizations, comparing it with the content of FOI laws.