The article explores the electronic government's contributions for the electronic governance in the Brazilian federal government's context. Electronic governance is understood as a process that aims to the political manifestation and participation of the civil society, close to the government, by electronic means, in the formulation, attendance of the implementation and evaluation of the public policies, with the objective of citizenship and democracy development. The research was based in the opinion of 27 key informers from the four sectors that constitute the e-gov stakeholders: public sector, private sector, Third Sector and Academy. The qualitative research employed analysis content technique to verify the perceptions of the interviewees on the topics considered in the study, using Atlas.ti software to help with conceptual ordering of collected data. The main results were that the electronic governance, in the federal level, is in its initial phase of development, with little participation of the citizens in the public policy formulation, that is, a weak influence of the civil society in the decision making, through the Internet, related to the public policies agenda setting.
Eletronic government; eletronic governance; governance; democracy
