Title: An API-intermediation system to facilitate data circulation for public services: the French case study

Authors: Christophe Gaie

Addresses: Direction Interministérielle du Numérique, ETALAB, Paris, France

Abstract: Nowadays, the circulation of data between government administrations remains a key concern to improve the efficiency of public services. The once-only principle was introduced to reduce the complexity of administrative procedures by reducing the documents to supply. However, its implementation remains painful as it requires to connect a large number of entities with various level of IT expertise. Thus, the proposal describes the interest towards introducing a simple intermediation system (based on REST API)¹ to simplify data circulation and facilitate e-government. The paper focuses on the case study of the French interconnection system entitled 'API Entreprise' and details its functioning, advantages, limits and perspectives.

Keywords: e-government; electronic government; public services; once-only principle; OOP; intermediation; application programming interface; API; representational state transfer; REST; simplification.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSYSE.2021.120292

International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering, 2021 Vol.6 No.4, pp.201 - 210

Received: 06 May 2021
Accepted: 10 Aug 2021
Published online: 13 Jan 2022 *

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