Acesso à informação e transparência ativa: proposta de regulamentação dos sítios virtuais das unidades acadêmicas e cursos da Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Abstract

Transparency and access to public information are rights of the Brazilian citizen that have been improved with the edition of several legal instruments over the last few years. There is a legal, academic, and social incentive for public agencies and entities to regulate access to information according to their specificities in order to generate better conditions for analysis, participation and social control, which can promote improvements in the quality of public service. Public universities, as part of the State and producers of relevant information for society, must be committed to transparency, however, much of their information is still not exposed as required by various normative instruments. Given this context, the present study aimed to analyze the informational requirements to be made available to undergraduate students at the Federal University of Alagoas. In order to achieve this objective, a survey of legislation dealing with active transparency was carried out, aimed at undergraduate students from Brazilian federal universities, in which eleven normative instruments were listed, and it was observed that only one federal university has an active transparency regulation instrument; with the normative requirements identified, it was performed its categorization, being identified five categories and seventeen subcategories; with the defined categories, their compliance was verified on the sites of the Academic Units and UFAL courses, in which it was observed that in none of the virtual sites there was compliance with more than half of the categorized requirements; good practices were identified in providing information on the searched virtual sites; finally, a Normative Instruction was proposed that regulates active transparency on virtual sites of Academic Units and undergraduate courses at the Federal University of Alagoas. The research can be methodologically characterized as applied; exploratory and descriptive; its means of investigation qualified as documental and case study; and in its approach to the problem, it employed the mixed method, by grouping qualitative and quantitative elements. Data collectionwas carried out through searches in search engines, consolidated databases, and through an inquiry form of the searched sites, as well as through questions prepared on the Fala BR platform. Quantitative data were recorded and accounted in spreadsheets, through simple descriptive statistical procedures; and qualitative data were submitted to content analysis, through categorical analysis. With the results, it was possible to identify the relevance of establishing a normative instrument that promotes the standardization of the information to be inserted in the sites in order to meet the legislation, as well as it was possible to identify the necessary elements for the construction of a Normative Instruction adequate to the reality of the Federal University of Alagoas, which was presented as a technical-technological product of this study.