ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT, INFORMATION AND INFORMATION LITERACY

Abstract

In several countries, the concern with the access to the information is being more and more present. In this sense, the use of the information and communication technologies for the governments in the offer of services and information to the society, it constitutes what was agreed to call of e-government (or electronic government). In Brazil, several e-government initiatives are observed in several development levels. This work has as base a brief revision regarding the Electronic Government's concept (e-government) on everything in the offer of public services and information diffusion in the Web through or starting from public organs. However, although many of these initiatives of electronic government are in advanced stage, your potentiality cannot be reached without enlarging the reach of the information and digital literacy close to the society.