In the past few years the establishment of e-government has been given numerous new impulses. Totally new horizons have been opened both on the level of information and communication technologies, especially by the Internet, and on the level of administrative processes by new methods and tools applied in process design. But nevertheless especially e-government is faced with much more difficulties and opposition in its implementation than its counterpart in business, namely e-business, which in turn meets difficulties that are anything but small. E-government looks back upon more than 40 years of history [1,2,3,4], and the recipes for success that have been presented are often older than the people who today are in charge of implementing them. The present article tries to show that in approaches to e-government that are merely limited to the technological and the administrative process level many immanent fields of tensions remain unconsidered.
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