Transparency of civil society websites: Towards a model for evaluation websites transparency

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 166-169

  Matheus, Ricardo ^a   Janssen, Marijn ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brazil; Case study; Civilian websites; Information asymmetry; Transparency

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; RESEARCH; WEBSITES;

BRAZIL; CIVIL SOCIETY; DATA QUALITY; FACILITATING CONDITIONS; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; LITERATURE REVIEWS; SOCIAL CONTROL;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 84900423227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2591888.2591915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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