For the study domain of e-Government, the past year unfolded as an extraordinarily successful one, in which the formation of professional digital and/or electronic government societies in both North America and Europe presented special highlights (for more information on the Digital Government Society of North America {DGSNA} and the European E-Government Society {EGOV-S} please see http://www.dgsociety.org/ and http://tinyurl.com/y4urfj ).