Strengthening Citizen Participation in the Development through E-Governance

toward the usage of e-governance increases the chance of public participation and engagement through this development. E-governance can be a potential tool and process that improve the effectiveness of the development. This study aims to analyze the discourses of e-governance and the usage of e-governance to increase citizen participation. This study is a review paper. The method to collect data through literature review and analysis of secondary data. This study concludes that there is positive relevance between e-governance implementation and citizen participation to development or government activities. However, there are several notes about the challenges and threat toward e g-governance implementation that may hinder the development itself.