Los sitios web de legislación en el Mercosur: un análisis comparativo

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Ciência da Informação

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004-08

RESUMO

The right to information, implicit in the right to information access is one the main basis of the modern State of law. In the access to information, highly qualified processes of knowledge organization and retrieval techniques, associated to new technologies, operate. The sources for legislative information, in special those related to the constitutional and legislative rules, must have a free, no charges access; at the same time, it must be unrestricted and with no discrimination so the citizens fundamental rights are guarantied. The Sates are responsible for easing the access to information by publishing the rules. Internet is an adequate vehicle to put in practice the principles stated above in a more broad and democratic way. In this work, the official web sites on legislation belonging to the countries integrated in Mercosur are analyzed. The web sites are characterized using parameters that allow quantify and qualify the level of fulfilment of the publishing principle: kinds of rules, time period, forms of access, costs, links, updating, ways of information subject retrieval, etc.. A comparative analysis is carried out, the results are shown and discussed, and a general evaluation is done.

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