Big data, small apps: Premises and products of the civic hackathon

Springer Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 543-559

  Carr, Sara Jensen ^a   Lassiter, Allison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

App; Hackathon; Open governance; Participation; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050202414     PISSN: 2194315X     EISSN: 21943168     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40902-3_29     Document Type: Chapter

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