2 years ago

Category: Business, Data, Infrastructure, Architecture, artificial-intelligence

Over the last decade, governments around the globe have been shifting toward open API infrastructure. The problem is, if it’s not done well, an API program risks increasing inequality among constituencies, especially those most vulnerable.

The potential for government open APIs to leverage third-party integrations to innovate is endless but that doesn’t mean it’s widely enabled yet.

Then he became a health inequalities officer, “working at the local government level of how city governments can improve population health and wellbeing at the data level.”

Boyd calls API design a team sport that needs to bring business, policy and architecture together over people-centric design.