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8 fev 2010 - por Admin

Acaba prazo para que secretarias norte-americanas disponibilizem sites com informações públicas

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Em agosto do ano passado, 2009, o governo norte-americano lançou um plano diretor, the Open Government Directive (OGD, em inglês), para garantir a abertura de todos os arquivos e registros públicos das secretarias de Estado. O prazo final para que todos os órgãos disponibilizassem seus conteúdos na internet se encerrou sábado (06.fev.2010).

As organizações sem fins lucrativos Sunlight Foundation e ProPublica divulgaram uma análise mostrando que 20 agências lançaram seus sites de páginas abertas de acordo com o Open Government Directive.

Segundo a organização, a Casa Branca também lançou um painel, the Open Government Dashboard, que monitora 29 agências para verificar o cumprimento ao OGD. A criação do painel satisfaz outra promessa contida no OGD.

O painel mostrou que 4 secretarias ainda não cumpriram totalmente as normas impostas pelo Open Government Directive. São elas: the Nuclear Regulatory Comission, the Office os Personnel Management, the Council on Environmental Quality e the Office of the US Trade Representative. O painel ainda mostrou as 25 agências que já estão de acordo com as novas normas.

A Sunlight Foundation e a ProPublica ainda estão no estágio preliminar de análise dos sites lançados. A preocupação é saber se os sites estão de acordo com as determinações da OGD, se ultrapassaram as expectativas, se possuem um bom design que permita uma boa navegação e se estão progredindo na direção de melhorar o plano inicial.

Leia abaixo a íntegra da nota divulgada pela Sunlight Foundation, em inglês.

Meeting or surpassing the White House’s deadline, the 20 agencies we monitored launched their /open pages by this past Saturday in accordance with the Open Government Directive. (See Sunlight Lab’s /open page trackertransparency tracker).

The White House also revealed its Open Government Dashboard, which monitors 29 agencies for compliance with the OGD. The timely creation of this Dashboard fulfills another promise contained in the OGD.

What’s notable about the White House’s Dashboard is that it helps hold agencies accountable by identifying the 4 agencies that have yet to fully comply with the OGD: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Office of Personnel Management, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of the US Trade Representative, in addition to indicating the 25 that have fully complied. These 4 agencies have yet to release all three high-value data sets. The Council on Environmental Quality receives an additional warning light for having failed to assign a senior official to ensure data quality.

We are in the preliminary stages of looking at what’s on these /open websites, with four questions initially springing to mind:

  • Are they making progress towards developing their Open Government Plan?

Both Intellitics and the General Services Administration have put together links to each agency’s pages (and RSS feeds) for gathering feedback and engaging in discussion with the public about the Plan. GSA has also added additional means of contact, specifically email and postal addresses.

In addition, GSA has an additional tool available: a wiki — the open government playbook — that aggregates a lot work done by the government and those outside the government on transparency. Its purpose is to “serve as a useful directory to [OGD] resources” — and invites everyone from government officials to members of the public to contribute. It is a great idea. (We had previously gathered all of our OGD resources on our separate wiki page.)

We’ll have a lot more to say in the upcoming days and weeks, particularly as we dig into the /open pages and the OGD Plan.

Before moving on, I must note that the White House took a risk in publicly setting a deadline for creating these /open pages. Meeting this deadline may not result in a lot of favorable media attention, but had agencies failed to do so, the White House may have been subject to a lot of criticism. The architects of the OGD deserve credit for taking a risk, for being willing to risk public failure in order to make something good happen. At first glace, they made it happen. Congratulations.

We’re going to take a hard look at these webpages to see how well they satisfy the details of the OGD, what improvements should be made, and evaluate the emergence of the Open Government Plan over the next 60 days. There’s a lot more to do, but Saturday marks an important milestone.

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