Well the first time I heard about this systems I considered them to be quite different but, unluckily, they sound very similar. So, when I started to search in this area it was very easy to be confused. Eventually I understand that by manipulating these two terms I make things more complicated and tangled. As far as I go deeper I feel to be more in trouble than two years before. Now I am using these terms everyday and each day I need to have a very good argument for using the one or the other. Couple of days ago I got a very good explanation from my Lecturer¹ on this issue. I asked him whether I can use his ideas in my blog or not. He agreed in case I credited him. Later on he sent me his Name, Title and Name of University by email. And when I inserted it into my text I realized that he has written “Dr David Kreps, Lecturer in eGovernment, University of Salford”. Meanwhile, I was thinking that he is a lecturer in eGovernance. So all this just gave me a very good cause to start writing about definitions of the terms.

Of course, I started from Wikipedia. Obviously it is the easiest way to receive any definition. Shortly I was amused ti find out that there is no definition for eGovernance. There was just a small definition of eGovernment²

The description of eGovernment sounds quite easy presented this way in Wikipedia. And why not? It is the definition of any project for government, where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is being used. The description of the term in this frame is clear. The same explanation of the term of electronic government I got from Subhash Bhatnagar’s book: “E-government: from vision to implementation”. And probably it is the best description of the term eGovernment. Then what about eGovernance?

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1. Dr David Kreps, Lecturer in eGovernment, University of Salford [↩]
2. e-Government (from electronic government, also known as e-gov, digital government, online government or in a certain context transformational government) refers to government’s use of information and communication technology (ICT) to exchange information and services with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government. e-Government may be applied by legislature, judiciary, or administration, in order to improve internal efficiency, the delivery of public services, or processes of democratic governance. The primary delivery models are Government-to-Citizen or Government-to-Customer (G2C), Government-to-Business (G2B) and Government-to-Government (G2G). The most important anticipated benefits of e-government include improved efficiency, convenience, and better accessibility of public services. [↩]