  This paper opens by introducing the Internet Plus Government (IPG), a new
government initiative emerging in the last decade. To understand benefits and
challenges associated with this initiative worldwide, we conducted analyses on
research articles published in the e-governance area between 2008 and 2017.
Content analysis and citation analysis were performed on 2105 articles to
address three questions: (1) What types of new ICT have been adopted in the IPG
initiative in the past decade? (2) How did scholars investigate interactions
between the new ICTs and governance core to IPG? (3) How did the new ICTs
interact and shape while also being shaped by the evolution of governance in
the past decade? Our analysis suggests that IPG initiative has enriched the
government information infrastructure. It presented opportunities to accumulate
and use huge volume of data for better decision making and proactive
government-citizen interaction. At the same time, the advance of open data, the
widespread use of social media and the potential of data analytics also
generated great pressure to address challenging questions and issues in the
domain of e-democracy.
