Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
This work exposes some benefits that would accrue to the city of Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, and its inhabitants the creation and implementation of a municipal public archive. To this end, official journals of Fortaleza city published between 1999 and 2021 were analyzed, as well as updated and available municipal indicators, through active transparency. A questionnaire was also applied to the Central Archive (Secretariat of Planning, Budget, and Management). Thus, through the diagnosis of the administrative reality of the city government of Fortaleza, it was found that a municipal public archival institution would bring benefits to the capital of Ceará in several spheres, among them the administrative-institutional, the economic, the citizen, the sustainability, and the preservation of the historic-cultural heritage of Fortaleza. The investigation aimed to point out the gains and benefits arising from the institutional creation of a public archive in Fortaleza. It was concluded that the implementation of a municipal public archive in the capital of Ceará could be done through small adjustments (considering the current configuration of the infrastructure of its central archive), would significantly favor the exercise of municipal governance, generate economy, promote the city to a higher status of transparency, development, citizenship, and culture, would strengthen the Democratic State of Law and would positively influence the other municipalities of Ceará and the Northeast region to also better systematize their archival public policies.
