Some authors use both terms when they speak of the new phase of e-Government, placing the emphasis on the role of citizens. Others seem to differentiate Digital Governance from E-governance.
There is a difference: it is historical (not histerical :).
e-governance (often related or even equated with e-Government) has emerged around or before the turn of the Millenium - while Digital Governance is somewhat more recent (and got a new lease on life a few years ago with the emergence of the buzzword digital transformation). In this later context digital governance has a bit different use.
Creo que ambos términos se refieren a, por un lado, digitalizar los procesos legislativos relacionados con la política pública y por otro, a las smart policy: es decir, gobernanza en la era digital. La presencia masiva de las redes sociales, la tecnología y la era digital suponen un desafío para todos los estados a nivel mundial
A digital governance can be considered to be manual government whereby systems are purely manual. That is the digital governance can be using computers either for printing, scanning or imputing data. While e-governance means that the services are electronic in that there is transfer of data and documents that have been digitized between networks of computers.
E-government is considered the first phase of digital government. OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) defines the digital government as „the use of digital technologies, as an integrated part of governments’ modernisation strategies, to create public value” and that it „relies on a digital government ecosystem comprised of government actors, non-governmental organisations, businessees, citizens’ associations and individuals which supports the production of and access to data, services and content through interactions with the government.” The e-government is defined as:”the use by the governments of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and particularly the internet, as tool to achieve better government.”