Open collaboration in the public sector: The case of social coding on GitHub

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Open collaboration in the public sector: The case of social coding on GitHub

Study Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X15300095
Citation: @doi:10.1016/j.giq.2015.09.004

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• GitHub
• Government
• Open repositories

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• ecology and/or evolution;
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Summary

• specifically highlighting US federal government's role to collaborate on code and use github.
• They describe uses: share code, develop websites, share data/results, get input on documents.
• As of 2014, there were 126 "federal government github projects"
• Department of energy ranking in the middle of most collaborative government agencies.

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