CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ACCESS TO INFORMATION LAW FOR THE ADVANCE OF TRANSPARENCY IN BRAZIL

Considering the Law on Access to Information (LAI) as a legal framework for the institutionalization of transparency in the public sphere and a tool that facilitates the democratization of access to information, it is inevitable to reflect on how scientific research on this relevant issue is developed. The present work aims to present a panorama of the scientific production on LAI, based on the consequent narrowing of relations between government and society through the advent of the Internet and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The methodology developed in this research was based on a bibliometric survey through online portal search of ANPAD, Spell and SciELO databases, from 2011 to 2018. As a conclusion, a large variance was observed in the number of publications during even after nearly seven years of enactment of the law; however, the number of citations is relevant, which shows a certain growth in the search for the topic, even if certain researches are not published in such bases used in this work.