| The Government is the largest producer of information, and in discharge of its duties must collect, debug, process, store, distribute and publish information to different levels and recipients. In the last decade, several studies have presented information exchange models, providing a wide range of alternatives to implement e-government solutions. Despite these efforts, the completion of these initiatives has not been reached, since elements that hinder or cancel their implementation are manifested. The government has opened up to new mechanisms of governance, in order to expedite the provision of services to citizens, as well as to support internal procedures between agencies. As of today, most of the public sector has migrated their IT platform and information management systems as part of its strategy of technological expansion and incursion in the concept of Electronic Government (United Nations, 2012). However, there has been a stronger promotion of the Government to Citizen platform (G2C) than the Government to Government platform (G2G), which is conceived as the core structure that should support other government services.;Despite efforts at the local level, the exchange of information between agencies has not been fully developed and implemented, and suggests that the 'Government to Government' component has not reached a level of maturity and adequate interoperability to support complementary services of the e-government platform. The government itself, as the principal consumer of the data produced, should guide the efforts of the agencies in the same direction, without compromising the essence and particularities of their functions and capabilities in the advent of a common platform for information exchange.;This research focused on measuring levels of maturity, interoperability and strategies for information exchange in the context of Government to Government, as the main structure of the services provided through an e-Government platform. Government effectiveness in the interpretation and application of laws related to e-government, and proper management of the factors that influence the exchange of information between agencies, were validated. The study considered the perception of government employees in Information Systems and Statistics about the exchange of information in streamlining its processes, and its compliance with standardization and integration policies.;This led the investigator to determine whether Government technology does or does not reach a level of maturity and interoperability between agencies, in order to facilitate operations and services shared locally. These constructs were also measured in accordance with the attention and solution of internal and external factors that define the scope of the exchange of information Government. The study integrated multiple variables that were conventionally studied independently in the context of e-Government. From the fundamentals of e-Government, the framework was developed in the context of Government to Government and its most important components. A comprehensive look at the constructs of interoperability, maturity, information strategies, political, economic and other internal and external factors laid the foundations of this study. Their integration allowed the author to evaluate the effect they could have on the exchange of Government information as a core component of e-Government services.;A direct approach to government employees with functions directly related to the exchange of information between agencies, allowed the author to collect relevant information about how the Government manages its information resources. From a population with particular characteristics, 87 people contributed with their time and opinion about the topics consulted. The instrument, an electronic questionnaire with 85 questions, allowed the author to learn that the maturity of the agencies was the variable with greater influence on initiatives for information exchange between agencies. At the same time, it was determined that internal and external factors had greater influence on the maturity and exchange strategies. However, the influence of the other constructs of the study made the multivariate model significantly weak. This could be interpreted as a limited capacity of local government to effectively manage information exchange initiatives. This outcome was based on reliability tests, factor and multivariate analysis performed on the results of the questionnaire. |
