Solutions and frictions in civic hacking: collaboratively designing and building wait time predictions for an immigration office;Solutions et frictions dans le domaine du piratage civique : création et construction collaborative de prédictions d’attente pour un bureau d’immigration;Soluciones y fricciones en el hacking cívico: diseño colaborativo para predecir los tiempos de espera en las oficinas de inmigración

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 1-20

  Perng, Sung Yueh ^a   Kitchin, Rob ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

civic hacking; Code for Ireland; Frictions; postcolonial technoscience; smart city; solutions

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; ETHNOGRAPHY; IMMIGRATION; SMART CITY; TECHNOLOGY;

IRELAND;

ESPERA;

EID: 84992088907     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2016.1247193     Document Type: Article

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