The Social, Economic and Financial Information of the Electronic Governments of Latin America

Abstract

In recent years, the governments of Latin America have been modernized with Information and Communication Technologies and especially with the Internet, this process is known as electronic government “e-government”, that is how the electronic governments of Latin America disclose information about their administration and management, as well as the services they offer by interacting with citizens through their web pages. However, there is a lack of disclosure of social, economic and financial information, which is essential given the lack of transparency in population data, high levels of indebtedness, inflation, lack of liquidity, low levels of budget execution, among others, and that are in the interest of the citizen. In this understanding, this research aims to analyze to what extent and how social, economic and financial information is disclosed online by the Ministries of Economy and Finance. For this, it was necessary to establish a questionnaire and indices to create a ranking of the most transparent countries in Latin America in disclosing said information through their electronic governments. The results show that the most transparent ministries are Brazil, Mexico and Chile and the least transparent ministries are the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.