Sensors, empowerment, and accountability: A digital earth view from East Africa

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 285-304

  Georgiadou, Yola ^a   Bana, Benson ^b   Becht, Robert ^a   Hoppe, Robert ^c   Ikingura, Justinian ^b   Kraak, Menno Jan ^a   Lance, Kate ^a   Lemmens, Rob ^a   Lungo, Juma Hemed ^b   Mccall, Michael ^a   Miscione, Gianluca ^a   Verplanke, Jeroen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accountability; Digital africa; Empowerment; Geobrowser; Human sensors; Water resources

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ACCOUNTABILITY; DIGITAL AFRICA; EMPOWERMENT; GEOBROWSER; HUMAN SENSORS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ACCOUNTABILITY; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DIGITIZATION; EMPOWERMENT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; PUBLIC SERVICE; SENSOR;

EAST AFRICA;

EID: 79959563933     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2011.585184     Document Type: Article

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