After a year 2021 placed under the sign of the global pandemic, it is not surprising to find nearly a third of the articles selected for the DIRECT minitrack addressing the subject of COVID-19 (30%). Overall, almost half of the articles in this edition of the DIRECT minitrack deal with communication between and among citizens (46%), two articles deal with the notion of evacuation (15%), and almost a quarter deal directly with resilience (23%). Finally, there are a few original topics that are not often covered in the minitrack DIRECT, such as cybersecurity or traffic management. The global feeling is that the next editions should probably slowly slide from instantaneous and short terms events mainly articles (e.g., earthquake) to long terms and continuous crisis articles (e.g. global warming and refugees), The DIRECT minitrack of the eGov track of HICSS 55 presents thirteen great papers addressing these issues but also these perspectives. The following presents each of these articles.