APIs In Action: How APIs are Facilitating Open Data Sharing and Enhancing Citizen Outcomes
Application Programming Interfaces, commonly referred to as APIs, are the cornerstone of modern applications, enabling core features of complex software to be extended and integrated in many different ways. The adoption of Big Data, coupled with Federal Open Government Data initiatives around the world have driven increased use of APIs. APIs are rapidly innovating and transforming the way that organisations can deliver services and improve customer experiences. By adopting an API first digital government approach, in the public sector, these benefits manifest themselves in three key ways: Ultimately however APIs are about transparency, sharing and openness, which is how most …