The Digital Government Review of Brazil was prepared by the Directorate for Public Governance (GOV) of the OECD. The mission of the Public Governance Directorate is to help governments at all levels design and implement strategic, evidence-based and innovative policies to strengthen public governance, respond effectively to diverse and disruptive economic, social and technological challenges and deliver on government’s commitments to citizens.
This review was produced under the supervision of Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi, heading GOV’s work on Digital Government, Open Government Data and Data-Driven Public Sector. Strategic directions were provided by Edwin Lau, Head of the Public Sector Reform Division in GOV, and Marcos Bonturi, Director of the Public Governance Directorate.
Chapter 1 was written by Alison Rygh, Digital Government Secondee in the Public Sector Reform Division. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 were written by João Ricardo Vasconcelos, Digital Government Policy Analyst in the Public Sector Reform Division. Chapter 5 was jointly written by Alison Rygh and João Ricardo Vasconcelos. All chapters benefited from contributions and revisions provided by Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi. João Ricardo Vasconcelos served as the lead co-ordinator of the review.
The report greatly benefited from the expert advice and valuable comments from fellow colleagues within the Public Governance Directorate of the OECD. Chapter 3 in particular benefitted from Daniel Gerson, Project Manager, Public Employment and Management, Paulo Magina Head of Unit, Public Procurement and Matthieu Cahen, Policy Analyst.
Raquel Paramo and Liv Gaunt provided support with the production process, and Julie Harris edited the manuscript.
The OECD Working Party of Senior Digital Government Officials that brings together the government chief information officers (CIOs), senior digital government policy and decision makers, along with representatives of the private sector, civil society, academia and international organisations to reflect upon and discuss the challenges and opportunities of the digital transformation of the public sector, provided the essential knowledge-based background for the development of the current review. The OECD is especially grateful to the following national peer reviewers from Canada, Italy and Mexico who provided valuable contributions and orientation to the review:
Pascale Elvas, Director, Canadian Digital Service, Canada
Enzo Maria Le Fevre, Senior Expert, International Activities Coordination, Agency for Digital Italy (AgID), Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Italy
Tania Cruz Romero, General Manager of the Digital Government Unit, Public Function Secretariat, Mexico.
This review would not have been possible without the permanent support from the National School of Public Administration (ENAP), benefiting greatly from assistance from: Francisco Gaetani, President; Guilherme Almeida de Almeida, Director of Innovation and Knowledge Management; Regina Souza, General Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies; Hamilton Cruz, General Coordinator for Institutional Articulation; Guilherme Morais-Rego, Manuel Bonduki and João Sigora, Department of Innovation and Knowledge Management.
The review also benefited from the constant commitment of the Ministry of Planning, Development and Management. The review team is particularly grateful to Luis Filipe Salin Monteiro, Secretary of Information and Communication Technologies; Wagner Silva de Araújo, Advisor; Jean Paulo de Castro e Silva, Director of Digital Government; Joelson Vellozo Jr., Director of Public Services Modernization and Innovation; Hudson Mesquita, General-Coordinator of Digital Public Services Platforms; Heber Maia, Advisor; Joyce Lustosa Belga, Augusto Herrmann Batista, Everson Lopes de Aguiar and Henrique Benassi Oliveira, Secretariat of Information and Communication Technologies.
The Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic also offered important high-level support for the development of the review, benefitting namely from Marcelo Guaranys, Deputy Minister for Public Policy Analysis; Erika Nassar, Head of Public Management Analysis, Kelvia Albuquerque, Special Advisor; Natalia Marcassa, Deputy Minister for Strategic Projects Monitoring, Marcelo Sampaio, Head of Public Management Monitoring, and Sylvio Musolino Filho, Advisor.
The Ministry of Science, Technology, Communications and Innovations has also provided important insights during the entire process and feedback for the final manuscript, benefiting from the contribution of: Miriam Wimmer, Director for Digital Transformation Policies; Daniel B. Cavalcanti, General Coordinator for the Digital Agenda; Samuel B. Conceição and Pedro G. Menezes, Department of Digital Transformation Policies.
Finally, the review team wishes to acknowledge the important contributions provided by the many stakeholders from the public and private sector during interviews, who participated in the technical workshops organised in Brasilia and who answered the OECD surveys administered for the purposes of this review.