This repository contains a list of all 308 Portuguese municipalities, with their respective district and website. The information presented here was based on the update of January 19, 2023, and comes from the website of the General Directorate of Local Authorities (DGAL), which is the central service of the direct administration of the State integrated into the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion of Portugal [1]. Data collection took place on January 26, 2023. We also carried out a manual review of all the website addresses on the list, where we identified and corrected some incorrect email addresses through a Google search of the corresponding municipality.
This list was used in a study on the cybersecurity of Portuguese city council websites [2]. In the interest of promoting open science [3], the list is being made publicly available.
The data includes the following fields for each city council:
- District
- City
- Url
This data is available under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license and can be used for any purpose, including research on website security for Portuguese city councils or any other purpose where information on these institutions is needed. By sharing this data and adhering to open science principles, we aim to promote the sharing of knowledge and the advancement of research in this field.
If you use this data in your own research, we ask that you please cite the original source and include a link to this repository. To properly attribute this data, please use the following DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7575903.
If you have any updates or corrections to the data, please feel free to open a pull request or contact us directly. Let's work together to keep this data accurate and up-to-date.
We would like to acknowledge the support of the Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the project "Cybers SeC IP" (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000044). This study was also developed as part of the Master in Cybersecurity Program at the Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
- Direçao-Geral das Autarquias Locais, “Portal Autárquico - Lista de Municípios,” nov 2021. [Online]. Available: http://www.portalautarquico.dgal.gov.pt
- Júnior, J., Carneiro, P., Paiva, S., & Pinto, P. (2023). An Analysis on the Implementation of Secure Web-Related Protocols in Portuguese City Councils. International Journal of Marketing, Communication and New Media. https://doi.org/10.54663/2182-9306.2023.sn12.59-76
- S. Bezjak, A. Clyburne-Sherin, P. Conzett, P. Fernandes, E. Görögh, K. Helbig, B. Kramer, I. Labastida, K. Niemeyer, F. Psomopoulos, T. Ross-Hellauer, R. Schneider, J. Tennant, E. Verbakel, H. Brinken, and L. Heller, Open Science Training Handbook. Zenodo, Apr. 2018. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1212496