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We share the literature review of the thesis NETWORK CITIZENSHIP: transparency and accountability in access to information, defended in the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Paraíba, in 2021. Its objective was to identify the extent to which the transparency portals of Brazilian capitals and the Federal District meet the characteristics that allow accountability. From the Access to Information Law (LAI), the public transparency movement emerged in Brazil, causing public opacity to lose space for public transparency. This movement, however, by itself is not enough to consolidate citizenship and democracy, for that it is essential that the citizen can exercise public accountability. of accountability We identified that despite the advance in terms of conditions that allow them to be considered as transparent and to identify signs of accountability, the literature review was fundamental in this knowledge process. We identified that despite the advance in terms of conditions that allow them to be considered as transparent and identify signs of accountability, the literature review was fundamental in this knowledge process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]