“…At the same time, although researchers of e-transparency have called for an empirical turn over the last years, a remarkable part of scientific production on this topic has concentrated on governments in Europe and the United States Curtin;Meijer, 2006;Benito, 2007;Hong, 2013;Cucciniello et al, 2017). Furthermore, scholarship on digital transparency tends to focus on federal or state government websites (Wong;Welch, 2004;Pérez;Hernández;Bolívar, 2005;Hong, 2013;Lourenço, 2013Lourenço, , 2015Almada, 2017;Kniess;, with fewer -but growingstudies available at the municipal level (Cruz;Santos, 2009;Cruz et al, 2012;Tejedo-Romero, 2016;Birskyte, 2019;Schmidthuber;Hilgers, 2021). There is, then, a need for more studies on the spheres of local governments to paint a clearer picture of discrepancies in the provision of digital transparency tools and the causes of these inequalities in countries from the Global South.…”