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This paper discusses how Brazilian Judicial branch is adapting to new opportunities brought by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), specifically internet, in face of the necessity to comply with guidelines of Access to Information Act (In Portuguese, Lei de Acesso à InformaçÃo - LAI) to its websites. For this, it presents as theoretical reference, the work of Norberto Bobbio on democracy, to introduce social control potentials, especially linked to transparency, which emerge with access to information brought by ICT and converted into a right enforced by LAI. It then presents a comparative approach of analysis conducted in 2013 and 2017 via a structured form to check on websites of main Brazilian Superior Courts regarding publication of data about their activities, management, finances and requests for information. The results highlight changes on those aspects over time: improvements on public data disclosure and problems not solved or which have emerged. One hypothesis is that manager's culture has more impact than the existence of top-down regulations on access to information. Continuous studies, replicating the observations over time, are useful to keep up with analyzing the level of adoption of ICT as transparency tools by judicial institutions.
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Kurtz et al. (2018) studied this question.