Best practices of the Finnish Government Information Society Policy Programme: Technology, provision, and impact scale

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 167-187

  Inkinen, Tommi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Content analysis; e government; Finland; Governance; Information society; Internet services; Public sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862586909     PISSN: 17506166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17506161211246917     Document Type: Article

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