Civic Hackathons: Innovation, Procurement, or Civic Engagement?
At all levels, governments around the world are moving toward the provision of open data, that is, the direct provision to citizens, the private sector, and other third parties, of raw government datasets, controlled by a relatively permissible license. In tandem with this distribution of open data...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 349 - 358 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2014
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