Regbr: an application overview

Government openness and transparency are key elements to build an accountable and trustworthy state, which are essential concepts to functioning democracies and market economies. Transparency in government processes increases citizen understanding and allows them to get involved by supervising and auditing government actions. RegBR was conceived as a framework to improve the legislative transparency, giving the citizens a tool to observe and monitor the Brazilian regulatory process and its characteristics. In this context, RegBR uses structured information to both create a historical regulatory flow and several regulatory metrics, which present how relevant are different sectors of the economy, how restricted are the normative acts, how linguistically complex are the regulations and, finally, how popular are theses normative acts through the eyes of the citizen and for the government.