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Government API to accelerate digital transformation of public sector

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Digital transformation of the public sector has a real impact on citizens. Here are three main benefits of API-driven government, aka government API:

Governments throughout the world are on the path of digital transformation. Some, such as the UK and Singapore are leaders according to the latest UN classification. Others are still in the process of planning their transformation.

Forbes has listed six digital transformation trends in government:

All this would not be possible without putting in place an appropriate API Management solution.

Government API for immersive citizens’ experiences

API Management platforms play a critical role in the digital transformation of governments, namely: opening data and IT silos, thereby achieving a citizen-centered delivery of services.
An Axway sponsored survey carried-out with IDC on 600 of decision-makers from all sectors highlighted a very important fact:

To realize this, enterprises and government departments must connect and integrate their information systems. They often do this via a platform that does the integration of data and processes and provides a single-entry window (SEW) to the user, a sort of one-stop-shop.

Digital government architecture

 

Digital government architecture

Digital transformation of governments is supported by architecture with two main pillars, namely:

A typical example is the issuing of a work permit. Such a service would need:

Making all government departments IT systems communicate requires governance and agreement on three types of APIs:

Finally, you should consider some major success factors when designing and implementing government API:

To learn more, check out Axway government API use cases:

 

 

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