WHICH TRANSPARENCY DOES THE OPEN GOVERNMENT REQUIRE?

Abstract

This article discusses transparency from the Open Government perspective. New approaches of transparency as a result of processes and reforms of public management, as well as progress made in Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), are analyzed. In this manner, Open Government, as a management model and seen as a platform for collaborative democracy, becomes the fundamental context for transparency. We explained this relationship in two points. Firstly, we approach the concept of Open Government, by mapping the definitions which have recently emerged, as well as its implications for collaboration, participation and transparency. Secondly, we advance a new proposal for transparency with the following question: which transparency does the Open Government need?