Civic Hackathons: Innovation, procurement, or civic engagement?

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 349-357

  Johnson, Peter ^a   Robinson, Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apps; Big data; Civic engagement; Civic hackathon; Geoweb; Open data; Procurement; Web2.0

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INNOVATION; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PRIVATE SECTOR; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84904385678     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12074     Document Type: Article

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