Digital government research in academia

Digital government projects are bringing together researchers from the technical and social sciences to participate in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborations that have the potential for making a broad and significant impact. We suspect that two distinct clusters are emerging in DG research: new IT tools for solving government problems on the one hand and, on the other, understanding sociotechnical systems with a focus on governance processes. These clusters are evident in this special issue's articles: three focus on new IT tools for government problems, and one addresses the implementation issues of a public Web portal.