The v in vgi: Citizens or civic data sources

Urban Planning

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 141-154

  Sangiambut, Suthee ^a   Sieber, Renee ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Citizen engagement; Consumer; Democracy; Governance; Government; Municipal; Open data; Participation; Volunteer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041504139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21837635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17645/up.v1i2.644     Document Type: Article

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