In January 2018, European Commission's DG CONNECT and DG JRC launched the 'APIs4DGov: APIs for Digital Government' - a two year study 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's interest to look carefully at innovative ways to improve inter-connectivity of public services and re-usability of public sector data, including dynamic data in real-time, while safeguarding data protection and privacy needs. In particular, the study:

i) assesses the digital government APIs landscape and opportunities to support the digital transformation ofthe public sector

ii) identifies the added value for society and public administrations of digital government APIs (key enablers, drivers, barriers, potential risks and mitigates)

iii) defines a basic Digital Government API EU framework and the next steps that can be taken in this context.

Mónica Posada Sánchez is a Research Fellow in the Digital Economy Unit of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Her professional experience evolves from Location Based technologies in the ICT domain towards research supporting data driven decision making. Currently, her work focuses on supporting the identification of policy gaps in the application of technologies in the digital era. She has worked both in industry and academia realms in the private and public sectors. Her research interests span various aspects of data science, specifically, the application of advanced data analysis techniques for the design of decision support systems.