Challenges of Expanding Internet: E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government: 5th IFIP Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business, and e-Government (I3E'2005), October 28-30 2005, Poznan, Poland

2.1 E-Government: e-Governance and e-Democracy The term Electronic Government (e-Government), as an expression, was coined after the example of Electronic Commerce. In spite of being a relatively recent expression, e-Government designates a field of activity that has been with us for several decades and which has attained a high level of penetration in many countries2. What has been observed over the recent years is a shift on the broadness of the e-Government concept. The ideas inside e-Go...