Securing e-Government and e-Voting with an open cloud computing architecture

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-251

  Zissis, Dimitrios ^a   Lekkas, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Electronic government; Electronic voting; Information and communication security

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954986542     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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