Safety or no safety in numbers? Governments, big data and public policy formulation

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1596-1603

  Amankwah Amoah, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Capabilities; Data; Public policy

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PUBLIC POLICY;

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; CAPABILITIES; DATA; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; POLICY FORMULATION; SAFETY IN NUMBERS; SKILLS UPGRADING; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 84944916847     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-04-2015-0158     Document Type: Article

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