Civic open data at a crossroads: Dominant models and current challenges

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 308-315

  Sieber, Renee E ^a   Johnson, Peter A ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data provision; Data sharing; Open data; Open government; Participatory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938284974     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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