Identifying participants' roles in Open Government platforms and its impact on community growth

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1900-1910

  Koch, Giordano ^a   Hutter, Katja ^b   Decarli, Peter ^b   Hilgers, Dennis ^c   Füller, Johann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY BUILDINGS; CONTRIBUTION BEHAVIORS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES; NETWORK-BASED ANALYSIS; ONLINE PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; UNDERLYING NETWORKS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875541246     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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