Free and open-source software: Opening and democratising e-government's black box

Information Polity

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-34

  Berry, David M ^a   Moss, Giles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associations; citizens; code; democracy; discourse; e democracy; e government; internet; open source; participation; software

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650350891     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ip-2006-0084     Document Type: Article

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