41 Good administration: the principle of transparency and its use by the international civil society

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The principle of transparency is one of the cornerstones in governance debate. It orients creditable practices for the making of public policies and draws citizens’ attention to the combat of corruption. Less opaque relations in public-private businesses may strengthen the confidence of investors and tends to deconstruct asymmetric relations in long-running scenarios. Nonetheless, it is important to bring to the fore in that debate the birth of a transversal rationality that has forged civil society in the international community beyond the national borders. Civil actors on social media networks organise debates and opinions locally for worldwide topics. The aim of our article is to present transparency as a local response from both States and civil society to confront abuses of global economic powers. Constitutions and domestic legislations on transparent policies when compared, it is more evident an asymmetric judgment between private investments and public sectors; the former usually seen as virtuous and the latter vicious and corrupt.