Popular participation and new technologies in Brazilian Public Administration:
challenges and perspectives in a connected world
Popular Participation. New technologies. Democracy. Public administration.
This dissertation deals with popular participation and technological employment in the Brazilian Public Administration, outlining challenges and perspectives. In the context of a connected society, as well as the need for a more sophisticated democracy, which embraces direct forms of participation, we are located in order to unite these two unprecedented elements, which are constantly evolving. Using legal dogmatics, this study seeks to understand the phenomena that involve the law and look for ways to apply it. For this, the inductive and deductive method was used with support in national and foreign doctrine and in Brazilian legislation, as well as through qualitative and quantitative analysis. Therefore, at the first moment, we analyzed the contours of popular participation in Brazil in the context of the Democratic Rule of Law to understand how the democratic path and evolution took place. Subsequently, we began to analyze the phenomenon of technology for society and its consequences for the State, which is called upon to evolve by adhering to technologies as well. Finally, this study made it possible to deepen the connection between technology and participation: connected democracy, and to realize that with the evolution of Information and Communication Technologies, citizens are being called upon to assume a leading role in the life of power. It was then found that, given the challenges brought by technology, such as the high speed of updating that is difficult to keep up with, budget limits, the need for cultural change and the concern with the digitally excluded, the State needs even more to rely on the technological and democratic solutions to propose solutions.