Rethinking government-public relationships in a digital world: Customers, clients, or citizens?

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-90

  Dutil, Patrice A ^a   Howard, Cosmo ^b   Langford, John ^b   Roy, Jeffrey ^c  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citizen; Client; Customer; Democracy; Digital; Electronic; Government; Relationship; Service; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649267657     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J516v04n01_06     Document Type: Article

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