Citizen surveillance of the state: A mirror for egovernment?

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 328, Issue , 2010, Pages 185-201

  Verplanke, Jeroen ^a   Martinez, Javier ^a   Miscione, Gianluca ^a   Georgiadou, Yola ^a   Coleman, David ^b   Hassan, Abdishakur Awil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic government (eGovernment); Electronic grievance (eGrievance); Geographic ICT (geoICT); Google earth (GE); Virtual globe; Volunteered geographic information (VGI)

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; MIRRORS; MONITORING; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; WATER QUALITY;

ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; ELECTRONIC GRIEVANCE (EGRIEVANCE); GEOGRAPHIC ICT (GEOICT); GOOGLE EARTHS; VIRTUAL GLOBE; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 84936760437     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15479-9_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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