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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

Open Contracting Partnership

Improving public procurement, which accounts for one in every three dollars spent by governments, is one of the core ways countries can do more with the same – or less. Instead, the Bank could make a concerted effort to build procurement capacity at the country level over time, tailored to the starting point of each country.

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Applying AI to Advance Agency Missions

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He has been in numerous leadership roles in the private sector for over 25 years, spanning accounting, finance, technology & operations management spheres. He is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Virginia and Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM). Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

According to a monitoring report by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), there were 1,586 cases of corruption in procurement detected between 2016 and 2022, amounting to total losses to the state of around US$2.7 “We want to hold government accountable. Three of these cases were related to road works, repairs and upgrades.

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Why is collecting and analysing data about public procurement so damned difficult? Data scientists explain some common problems

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

Open data is often lauded as a magic pill for anti-corruption: reveal what’s going on, inform the public, and, presto, government will become more accountable. We have written elsewhere about the institutional and political challenges that can hinder the transparency –> accountability transformation.

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An apparent attempt to disrupt Army conference with foul smell

Federal News Network

A new report from the Government Accountability Office detailed Treasury and 22 other civilian agencies' actions across six topics and 12 common themes to fulfill the law's requirements. Hundreds of people, most of them State Department or intelligence community employees, have reported anomalous health incidents since 2016.

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Discover the AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure located in Canada

AWS Public Sector

In Canada, we have two Regions, each containing three AZs: Canada Central in Montréal, Quebec (launched in 2016), and Canada West in Calgary, Alberta (launched in 2023). This is accomplished through a completely redundant 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) fiber network backbone, often offering numerous terabits of capacity across different Regions.

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CyberSmart 2024: Facing a Rapidly Changing Landscape

FedInsider

Prior to joining the Treasury in 2016, Sarah Nur held numerous leadership positions in systems engineering, IT network deployment (worldwide), and operational cybersecurity supporting public and private organizations. In 2016, Edwards was recognized by FCW in its “Federal 100 Awards” as being one of the top IT professionals in the U.S.