The level of funding information in the websites of Public Funding Agencies - FAPs

Abstract

Websites are important for exchanging information and allowing citizens to participate in decision-making efforts on important issues that interest society. This paper aims to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of FAPs and the level of development information available on their electronic portals. We then tested the relationship between the volume of information and the age, the budget, the total assets, and the number of employees of FAPs. Websites were analyzed using content analysis followed by a Pearson correlation analysis to test the hypotheses. The value of Pearson's correlation coefficient showed that the correlation of the variable level of information with the variable age (r = 0.38) is not significant (p > 0.05); thus, there is no correlation between the level of information and age from FAP. The other coefficients also showed that there is a relationship between the level of information on the electronic portals and the variables: budget for 2019 and 2020 (r = 0.548 and r 0.539, p = 0.005 and p = 0.005, respectively), total assets for 2019 and 2020 (r = 0.484 and r = 0.535, p = 0.014 and p = 0.006, respectively) and the servers (r = 0.528 with p = 0.007). Although we expected that older organizations could be better structured due to experience and history, in the case of FAPs, websites cannot be expected because the internet became popular in Brazil from 1994 onwards. Their existence before this could not generate an advantage over the others regarding institutional websites.