ABSTRACT
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been given an inadequate focus in e-government literature, despite high promises. As electronic government services (e-governance) include traditional applications such as online portals and services, they face challenges in the digital era where people find themselves relying more on internet services and diverse channels of communication with their government. IoT shows a variety of expected political, strategic, tactical, and operational benefits, which implies that IoT enables effective knowledge management, sharing and collaboration between domains and divisions at all levels of the organization, as well as between government and citizens. Though IoT has advantages, it still has to meet the requirements of semantic interoperability (SI). e-Governance is presented as a generator of different environments and as a creator of resources of IoT environments with SI. The problem of electronic identification of individuals, assistants, organizations, and objects in an IoT environment is raised. The transfer of practices to IoT in the area of SI will lead to the evolvement of a common semantic space in which people interact with physical objects, organizations, and countries.
