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European Commission's DG CONNECT together with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) launched a study with the purpose to gain further understanding of the current use of APIs in digital government and their added value for public services.

This study reflects the European Commission interest to look carefully at innovative ways to improve interconnectivity of public services and reusability of public sector data, including dynamic data in real-time, safeguarding the data protection and privacy legislation in place. In particular the study will:

• assess digital government APIs landscape and opportunities to support the digital transformation of public sector;
• identify the added value for society and public administrations of digital government APIs (key enablers, drivers, barriers, potential risks and mitigates),
• define a basic Digital Government API EU framework and the next steps.

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