Lessons Learned from the Use Of Budgetary Data Open Format: An Exploratory Study in the Brazilian Ecosystem

Abstract

Pressured by new demands of society, governments seek new forms of management, in order to allow a greater approximation of their societies. Allied to this fact, because they are large users of information technology, which provides the growth of their databases, has governments and their public organizations fertile ground for open data initiatives. Access to and use of public budget data (for their relationship with income and expenses), historically aroused great attention of society. So this study aimed to identify how the potential benefits and possible barriers impact the results achieved and lessons learned in the Brazilian ecosystem of open government data, in the intermediate vision working with budget data. interviews with actors were held (intermediaries) from governments and society, acting in the budget open data ecosystem. The results show that structural barriers of governments negatively impact the actions of intermediaries, which limit the scope of information available. On the other hand positive results are obtained by the belief that benefits with respect to transparency and greater knowledge of the processes can be derived by the company, this fact motivates intermediaries to act in this ecosystem.