Track Introduction

Matching the growth rate in previous years, the Electronic Government (e-Gov) researcher and practitioner community has grown again. As the reference library of peer-reviewed, English- language publications reveals, the volume of research has increased by at least 42 percent over the previous year (http://tinyurl.com/2ks294). New journals dedicated to this study domain have published their inaugural volumes (for example, Emerald´s TGPPP, or Taylor & Francis´s JITP), and existing journals have dedicated expanded space to e-Gov-related research (for example, Elsevier´s GIQ, or IOS´s Information Polity). More special interest groups have formed, topic-specific workshops and symposia abound, and even more regional conferences have emerged than in previous years.