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The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for information transparency in Brazil is not recent. It is possible to highlight several strategies have emerged to promote transparency of these information. This article aims to fill a gap observed in the literature regarding the use of data and information provided by governments and used by citizens and companies from the comparison with the specialized bibliography. The methodology consists of a single case study, the city of Rio de Janeiro, with review of literature in the field of e-government and open data followed by an exploratory study of the portals open data and open data policy municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Furthermore creating a simple visit to portals based on the literature review of the eight principles of open data of the Open Government Data and five stars of Tim Berners-Lee. Finally, based on the work of Zuiderjwik & Janssen (2014) pointing virtuous elements of the use cycle of open data by civil society. This work also increase an element lacking in the literature: strategies of dissemination and encouraging governments to use open data.The results indicate the scarce, but organize data can improve the performance of service delivery of a city.

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Since the development of electronic government, the main area using information and communication technologies in governments were financial control and tax payment. However, recently, this scenario has been changing and new forms of ICT have been used. One of this new form is the anti-corruption online monitoring systems. It is a new channel where all of information about governments is published on transparency portals and there is a complex system to receive inquires and charges, kind of ombudsman through the Internet. It was conducted an exploratory study of sub-national initiatives from Court of Accounts to find initiatives and a structured review of websites. The States Courts of Accounts are the entity responsible to control State Governments in Brazil. The final considerations reveals what are the limits and challenges of anti-corruption online monitoring systems have in terms of technological use, as web 2.0, social networks and others innovations perceived on the international literature review.