Open government portals assessment: A transparency for accountability perspective

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8074 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-74

  Lourenço, Rui Pedro ^a,b  

^a INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

accountability; assessment; Dataset portals; transparency

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION USE; SERVICE INDUSTRY; TRANSPARENCY;

ACCOUNTABILITY; ASSESSMENT; FINANCIAL REPORTING; INFORMATION-SEEKING STRATEGIES; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION; QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS;

OPEN DATA;

EID: 84885013185     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40358-3_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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