Our CEO David O'Neill spoke at Apidays Paris last year about the issues and need for agreed and measurable standards for regulated industries. In case you missed it, here's his talk with Arnaud Lauret.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiwpc897DikThe key problem that he (and we) see for all types of regulated industry – banking, healthcare, travel, and so on – is not just agreeing on the standards for what the APIs look like technically, but how we can agree on ways to measure their performance and identify when things go wrong. "The time is coming for an API economy-wide conversation about regulation, measurement, and dispute resolution [...]

As the COVID-19 pandemic has so painfully demonstrated over the last few weeks, we live in a connected world. That has been true for centuries. The Black Death probably began in Central Asia in 1338-9 and reached Europe in 1347, eventually killing somewhere between 75 and 200 million people in Eurasia. It is not known where the so-called “Spanish” H1N1 influenza pandemic originated, but it is known that the pandemic, which lasted from January 1918 to December 1920 infected essentially every human on the planet. It is a sad feature of history that numerous pandemics of novel infectious diseases have [...]