Open Data and Civic Apps: First-Generation Failures, Second-Generation Improvements.

The article looks at mobile applications (apps) which use publicly-available government data. The authors investigate why the first generation of civic apps developed through the open data movement did not enjoy widespread popularity. It is suggested that loose governance and limited knowledge trans...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 82 - 90
Main Authors:	MELISSA LEE, ALMIRALL, ESTEVE, WAREHAM, JONATHAN
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jan2016
Subjects:	Mobile apps Open data movement Electronic government information Knowledge transfer Computer software development
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