An Ecosystem Programming Interface is an API for social and ecological ecosystems: a defined interface through which organizations exchange people, knowledge and resources. I wanted a computational mindset to build relays in our social and ecological ecosystems. Later I started saying Ecological Programming Interface.
How the word moved
It comes from April 2024, in Wystem 2 and Wystem 4, when I was working out what a wystem would need. The software engineer's trick is to agree on the interface and leave the insides alone. I think organizations could use the same trick.
In my words
"How do we use a computational mindset and in particular the idea of the application programming interface or API to create relays in the ..."
from Wystem 2: On Ecosystem APIs, 15 Apr 2024
Related
- Related Wystem - It's one of the wystem's working concepts.