Electronic Government, or Digital Government, is a multidisciplinary research domain, which studies the use of information and technology in the context of public policy making (electronic governance, open government, and digital divide/s), government operations (transformation, management, organization, infrastructure, interoperability, security), citizen engagement (e-participation, transparency, collaboration, and digital democracy), and government services (including using social media).

Numerous disciplines contribute to this intersection of research such as computer science, information systems research, information science, political science, organizational sciences (public administration and business administration), sociology, and psychology among others.

The HICSS e-Government track has been a hotbed for groundbreaking studies and new ideas in this particular research domain. Many studies first presented here were developed further and then turned into publications at top journals. Ten minitracks cover the full spectrum of research avenues of electronic government including minitracks dedicated to emerging topics, open government, and social media and social networking, or most recently, insider threats..

The HICSS e-Government Track has assumed an excellent reputation among e-Government scholars. Several times it has been ranked the academically most rigorous research conference on e-Government in the world. The E-Government Track is in the top 2 of HICSS tracks with the lowest acceptance rate and the highest average per-session attendance. Having a paper accepted at the e-Gov Track at HICSS means something. Furthermore, HICSS is in the top 2 percent of all IEEE conferences with regards to proceedings hits and paper downloads.