Literature reports the experiences with e-government initiatives as chaotic and unmanageable, despite recent numerous initiatives at different levels of government and academic and practitionersâ€TM conferences on e-government. E-government presents a number of challenges for public administrators. To help public administrators think about e-government and their organizations, this article describes different stages of egovernment development and proposes a â€ ̃stages of growthâ€TM model for fully functional e-government. Various government websites and related e-government initiatives help to ground and explain this model. These stages outline the multiperspective transformation within government structures and functions as they make transitions to e-government through each stage. Technological and organizational challenges for each stage accompany these descriptions. At the same time, this paper describes how the e-government becomes amalgamated with traditional public administrative structure. a b Purchase Export