Innovation in democratic e-governance: Benefitting from Web 2.0 applications in the public sector

International Journal of Electronic Government Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 18-36

  Anttiroiko, Ari Veikko ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Content sharing; Government 2.0; Social networking; Web 2.0; Web 2.0 application

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT; CONTENT PRODUCTION; CONTENT SHARING; GOVERNMENT 2.0; SECOND GENERATION; WEB 2.0; WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS; WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77954090328     PISSN: 15483886     EISSN: 15483894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jegr.2010040102     Document Type: Article

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