Open API and Public Apps as Law and Policy for Innovation and Competition

MIT City Council member Ben Kallos advocated use of an Open API (enabling many innovative, competitive and different apps) and a new "E-Hail" NYC branded public App to provide an accessible, fair, free baseline service to anchor a growing dynamic economic marketplace of mobile apps for transportation services. This creative approach could provide the basic formula for a method of law and policy making that can work better for the information age not only in the transportation and other markets as well.