Legal and institutional challenges for opening data across public sectors: Towards common policy solutions

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1-14

  de Rosnay, Melanie Dulong ^a   Janssen, Katleen ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Control; Licensing; Open data; Public policy; Public sector information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905671277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762014000300002     Document Type: Article

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