Passive crowdsourcing in government using social media

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 283-308

  Charalabidis, Yannis ^a   Loukis, Euripidis N ^a   Androutsopoulou, Aggeliki ^a   Karkaletsis, Vangelis ^b   Triantafillou, Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c Athens Technology Center   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; E participation; Public policy; Social media; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904668714     PISSN: 17506166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/TG-09-2013-0035     Document Type: Article

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