Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 8, 2024

This is the third post in ICCA series of reports on the ICCA 2024 Congress (“Congress”), which took place in Hong Kong. This post reports on the events of Tuesday, 7 May 2024, the second full day of the Congress. Follow along and see all of Kluwer Arbitration Blog ’s coverage of ICCA Hong Kong 2024 here.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Available on Demand | March 13, 2024 | 1 Hour | 1 CPE After the events of the past few years, security is in the forefront of election officials’ minds. The threat of mis-, dis-, and mal-information (MDM) that aims to undermine the public’s confidence in election integrity is another concern.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 8, 2024

This is the third post in ICCA series of reports on the ICCA 2024 Congress (“Congress”), which took place in Hong Kong. This post reports on the events of Tuesday, 7 May 2024, the second full day of the Congress. Follow along and see all of Kluwer Arbitration Blog ’s coverage of ICCA Hong Kong 2024 here.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Become a Sponsor of the 2024 Spring Training Conference! We would like to thank our current sponsors: 2024 Spring Training Conference, May 8-9 To view the 2024 Sponsorship Prospectus, click here. The Coalition’s Spring Training Conference is quickly approaching! Companion legislation, S.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 8, 2024

On 6 June 2024, Hogan Lovells and Twenty Essex co-hosted a London International Disputes Week (“LIDW”) event on the topic “ How Can Investment Protection Contribute to the Energy Transition? Although advisory opinions are non-binding, they are intended to influence domestic and international litigation.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 5, 2024

Paulsson further emphasized the need to maintain ethical standards and avoid the pitfalls of professionalizing arbitration too much, which could lead to a system where decisions are influenced by factors other than merit.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Arbitrations evolution has intensified during the time of my editorship and has influenced the ways in which public discourse on arbitration is currently conducted. Morgan MWENDA, Regional Arbitration Centres for Investor Protection African integration is progressively strengthening regional ties and offering new economic opportunities.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 12, 2024

The fifth edition of the Bucharest Arbitration Days (“BArD”) took place on 6 and 7 June 2024. Ziyaeva discussed the UK’s use of anti-suit injunctions to enforce arbitration agreements, highlighting the UK Supreme Court’s April 2024 decision in Unicredit v. The general consensus? Mission accomplished.

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FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

Enhancing collaboration Public sector agencies operating worldwide are adopting cloud-based collaboration tools to create a more integrated work environment where documents and projects are easily accessible anytime and on any device. Doing so facilitates more seamless project communication, budgeting and reporting.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 7, 2024

This post summarizes an event hosted by Stewarts LLP as part of the 2024 London International Disputes Week (“LIDW”) on the topic of third-party funding (“TPF”) regulation across various jurisdictions. Funding is integral to the current dispute resolution regime and is utilized quite substantially in both litigation and arbitration.

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FedInsider

APRIL 2, 2024

State and local governments are preparing for the election year by leveraging federal and private sector partners along with security tools to uphold election integrity. Since joining Fortinet, Jim has been named a “Fed 100” and a “Pinnacle” awardee for his influence on technology in the U.S. and Stanford.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, as HolonIQ reports in its 2024 Global Education Outlook , funding sources slowed across the board in 2023, dropping 59% from 2022 levels. How customers are applying CFM to improve their profitability Wonde is a global provider of data integration solutions for schools’ management information systems (MIS).

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 14, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sustainability Breakfast Briefing on February 20, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland, featured a panel of sustainability experts from AWS customers and partners, as well as educational talks on important sustainability themes. Leveraging AI however, can accelerate the collection of ESG reporting and facilitate insights.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2024

By integrating big data, such as satellite imagery and human activity indicators, the tool alerts stakeholders about risks, enabling preemptive action. Additionally, concerns about data privacy, especially when serving vulnerable communities, can influence decision-making.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

The Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) will be hosting the first Johannesburg Arbitration Week (JAW) at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 9 to 11 April 2024. Originally scheduled for March 2020, the event was, of necessity, postponed when COVID-19 swept away all before it.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 30, 2024

On April 22, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a Final Rule significantly revising the Uniform Guidance for grants, cooperative agreements, and other federal financial assistance. Agencies must implement the Final Rule by October 1, 2024; however, agencies may apply it to federal awards as early as June 21, 2024.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Scope of Application Differently from traditional investment agreements, the stated purpose of the SIFA is not only to foster foreign direct investment (“FDI”) (Article 1), but also to do so in a manner that integrates environmental and labour standards, transparency, and corporate social responsibility.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 , signed into law on December 22, 2023, makes numerous changes to acquisition policy. The FY 2024 NDAA also includes the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, the American Security Drone Act, and the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2024.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

The vision is to go beyond supporting “just” a transparency and reporting portal to have a digital ecosystem that integrates real-time damage assessments, budgets, project planning, procurement and delivery. The system will be scaled during 2024. While this is an ambitious plan, the need is compelling.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 14, 2024

The final compromise version of the Directive was adopted on March 15, 2024, after delays due to disagreements among member States over its scope, leading to a substantial reduction in the CS3D’s applicability. The European Commission will publish a list of non-EU companies falling within CS3D’s scope in the near future.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

Integrating escape or exceptional event clauses has emerged as a vital mechanism amid these challenges. Influence on Compliance: a clearly defined activation timeline is pivotal in post-escape clause compliance. While fiscal rules are essential for consistency and credibility, they often fail to handle unpredictable crises effectively.

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Select GCR

JULY 16, 2024

The Roundtable Event On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the Small Business Administration (SBA) hosted a pivotal roundtable during the 8(a) Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, addressing significant updates and upcoming changes affecting Alaska Native Corporations and other small businesses involved in federal contracting. simultaneously.

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Select GCR

JULY 16, 2024

The Roundtable Event On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the Small Business Administration (SBA) hosted a pivotal roundtable during the 8(a) Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, addressing significant updates and upcoming changes affecting Alaska Native Corporations and other small businesses involved in federal contracting. simultaneously.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 18, 2024

These topics were the focus of a three-day Regional Seminar on International Taxation, held in Brasilia on June 11-13, 2024, which marked a significant milestone in the work of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and its partners in helping Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) address critical tax policy challenges.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

South African legal jurisprudence has come to enjoy significant influence in an increasingly globalised world where political, economic, social, and legal activities transcend territorial borders. The arbitration user community requires a structured, efficient, and cost-effective alternative to traditional litigation.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These orders are guiding the technology trends expected for 2024, as agencies work to meet zero-trust deadlines and look forward to metrics by which they’ll be able to measure their progress toward the customer experience goals of the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (21st Century IDEA).

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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 31, 2022

Thirty-one of these are Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, and they are currently working to ensure that the voluntary political agreement translates into international conventions and domestic legislation so that the package can take effect in 2024 as announced recently by OECD in Davos. billion a year.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The questions all go to the integrity of the data being used to assess fair and reasonable pricing. The FAS realignment provides an opportunity to address and improve data integrity and data driven decision making. Is the data backward looking or is there forward-looking data regarding the market?

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

de, [link] On 17 October 2024, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its preliminary ruling in NFŠ (C-28/23, EU:C:2024:893 ). By Arne Müseler / www.arne-mueseler.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 The case was very interesting in three respects. It is for the referring court to determine whether those circumstances are present in this case.

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FedInsider

MARCH 4, 2024

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Federal departments and agencies are making headway in meeting the requirements of Executive Order 14028, issued in May 2021, to strengthen their cybersecurity by implementing a zero trust architecture.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

On March 28, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-24-10 , Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence (Memo), updating and implementing OMB’s November 2023 proposed memorandum of the same name.

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Extract Systems

MAY 21, 2024

The 2024 US presidential election stands as a pivotal moment where AI's influence is set to be more pronounced than ever before. In the 2024 election, candidates are leveraging AI-powered tools to gain deep insights into voter preferences, behavior patterns, and sentiment analysis.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

From this narrow perspective, procurement would be primarily concerned with ensuring the integrity and probity of decision-making processes involving the management of public funds, as well as fostering the generation of value for money through effective reliance on competition for public contracts.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

OMB Aims to Increase Small Disadvantaged Business Spending in FY24 On October 25, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo informing agencies of Federal goals to award 13 percent of Federal procurement dollars to small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) in fiscal year (FY) 2024.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 25, 2023

His proposed schedule also recommends beginning consideration of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 appropriations as early as May to pass all 12 bills before August 2024. He viewed the federal procurement process as offering an opportunity to influence standards/frameworks for AI development/deployment.

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FedInsider

AUGUST 20, 2024

He also believes strongly in the power of automation and API’s and loves to talk about integrating Veeam with automation, security, reporting and compliance systems. Threats now include increasingly sophisticated foreign influence campaigns intended to undermine people’s faith in elections,” Marks said.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 10, 2025

In 2024, the relationship between arbitration and technology continued to resemble a thriller. While integrating technology into arbitration offered the promise of new opportunities, it also introduced new layers of complexity, both in terms of procedure and in terms of disputes arising from technology itself.

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