Transparência na administração pública: uma análise dos portais eletrônicos das instituições públicas de ensino superior da Paraíba

Abstract

This study sought to identify the degree of transparency of the information disclosed on the electronic portals of the Public Institutions of Higher Education in Paraíba. As specific objectives: Characterize the Public Institutions of Higher Education of Paraíba; identify what information made available by the electronic portals of the Public Institutions of Higher Education of Paraíba fit into the components of IndexDUF; compare the transparency between the electronic portals of the Public Institutions of Higher Education of Paraíba. The theoretical framework included discussions about public transparency and transparency in Public Institutions of Higher Education, based on authors such as, Platt Neto et al., (2007), Cruz et al., (2012), among others. It is a research of quantitative nature, of descriptive type. For this, it was used the IndexDUF, proposed by Pessôa (2013), to identify the transparency of the electronic portals of four public institutions of higher education in Paraíba, namely, UFCG, UFPB, UEPB and IFPB. As for the results, it was found that the average percentage of overall disclosure of the electronic portals of the public HEIs of Paraíba was 77.65%. The individual results of the institutions pointed out a difference between the indexes, in which IFPB showed the lowest percentage of transparency, with an average value of general disclosure of 72.56%, followed by UEPB (75.46%), UFCG (80.76%), and UFPB, with 80.86%. Therefore, after analyzing the data obtained from the electronic portals of the HEIs, the need for improvement of the sites was verified, with the inclusion of items that were not identified during the survey, thus improving the level of transparency and allowing effective access by society to the information sought on the portals.