Proposta de um sistema de informações estratégicas e georreferenciadas para a secretaria municipal de educação de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

Currently the availability of educational information at the municipal administration level indicates the existence of a large amount of data produced and an increasing demand for such information. At the strategic level of the Municipal Secretary of Education of Belo Horizonte (SMED), such information have been available after treatment, organization and aggregation of other data with great effort and, many times, not based on systematized data or through worksheets, charts or reports prepared manually. Furthermore, geographically organized information has been constantly demanded by the Secretary Cabinet, along with the requirement of an intersection with information produced by other areas of the municipal administration and with social indicators produced by external database. However, there is no information management system capable of saving, storing, processing and distributing such information and, at the same time, providing the access and integration of all information systems of SMED or the external bases. This Educational Action Plan consists in the proposal of the guidelines for a strategic information system composed by educational database and geographic indicators with an accessible interface that returns visual displays (charts and maps) of the information to the strategic level of SMED. This system will give greater visibility of the most important educational indicators used by the council with more agility and by means of maps. Thus, the system will provide a useful tool for planning and monitoring of public policies and programs of municipal education.