---
title: "The Rise of the E-Citizen"
description: "Covers our basic findings related to how people use government Web sites."
date: "2002-02-12"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2002/02/12/the-rise-of-the-e-citizen/"
categories:
  - "Federal Government"
  - "Online Search"
  - "Politics & Media"
  - "Politics Online"
tags:
  - "Government"
  - "politics"
---

# The Rise of the E-Citizen

This presentation covers our basic findings related to how people use government Web sites. It contains screengrabs that give examples of some of the things our survey revealed about the features at government Web sites they use.