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X-Road is a government API framework licensed under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) license. It is also used as a backbone of the Finnish national data exchange layer. Originally built for SOAP/XML web services, now extends to REST APIs. Rather than requiring governments to develop API management directly, X-Road provides an API management layer, including an API gateway, which is open-sourced and available to other governments worldwide (Finnerty, 2018).
The API Guidelines propose an API gateway so that all government departments and third-party partners can manage APIs through a common architecture, and also stipulate the creation of a single developer portal so that potential API users can discover all available APIs in one location. Style guidelines reflect industry and government best practices in API lifecycle management, API product management, and the use of technical principles including REST.
The US Government is known for its data.gov initiative, where it has standardized the APIs across all federal agencies. This initiative has led to better consistency, security, and interoperability, thereby enhancing the data and services' value. They are used the API management tool to enforce strict encryption and access control measures, providing secure access to the vast amount of public data hosted by federal agencies.
Governments are using API-enabled infrastructures around the world to move fast towards digital to build improved citizen experience with gov services, work with external partners, reuse IT components more efficiently, and incorporate data into decision-making across their operations. As we have seen globally, the adoption of APIs by governments varies widely. A government’s API engineering team should be able to work efficiently and an API should be able to scale quickly. Therefore, tools should be selected that are widely adopted like open-source Apache APISIX or API7 cloud-based and enterprise API management platform to manage the full API lifecycle, secure and control access, establish SLAs, or throttle calls to API endpoints.