Implementing Good Governance Principles for the Public Sector in Information Technology Governance Frameworks

Copyright © 2014 Carlos Juiz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In accor-dance of the Creative Commons Attribution License all Copyrights © 2014 are reserved for SCIRP and the owner of the intellectual property Carlos Juiz et al. All Copyright © 2014 are guarded by law and by SCIRP as a guardian. In this paper, we are showing how Information Technology (IT) governance frameworks contribute to the im-plementation of the key principles of the good corporate governance, particularly, in the public sector. We dem-onstrate that there are numerous links, explicitly and implicitly expressed through a set of IT governance in-struments, matching the proposals of good governance principles with the behavioral goals of an IT governance framework implementation. We also provide a real experience of using a set of possible instruments, in our pub-lic university, through an IT governance framework based on the ISO/IEC 38500 standard. We also present the maturity of the good governance principles implementation with this set of instruments, after governing IT in our university during the period 2007-2013. We show that using an IT governance framework in a public entity mutually reinforces the key principles of good governance, especially the transparency and accountability goals for the IT assets