GovCon Expert Amy Hilbert on FOIA Challenges, Striking a Balance Between Transparency & Security
GovCon Wire
JULY 12, 2024
The importance of cybersecurity and the consequences of a data breach are widely understood. What about
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Extract Systems
AUGUST 1, 2023
Striking a balance between transparency and protecting sensitive information is a challenging task for government entities. Extract Systems' redaction software boasts a powerful OCR engine that utilizes machine learning to classify documents and identify data within complex unstructured files.
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Simplify firewall deployments using centralized inspection architecture with Gateway Load Balancer
AWS Public Sector
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) enables seamless integration of these firewall appliances into the AWS architecture, ensuring consistent security policies and minimizing disruptions. It’s important to note that GWLB operates as a bump-in-the-wire solution, meaning it transparently intercepts and forwards traffic without acting as a proxy.
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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean
Inter-American Development Bank
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM). of GDP, according to FISLAC calculations.
Redefining Resolution in Data Disputes: Why Arbitration Holds the Key
Kluwer Arbitration
DECEMBER 10, 2023
In our data-centric economy, disputes related to the safeguarding, access and use of data are on the rise. These disputes implicate personal data protection and privacy rights, which must be addressed with a nuanced understanding of both privacy laws and their intersection with dispute resolution.
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A Balancing Act: Drive Sustainability while Managing Cost and Risk
ivalua
APRIL 27, 2023
Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] A Balancing Act: Drive Sustainability while Managing Cost and Risk April 27, 2023 | | Supply Chain by Vishal Patel Cost, Risk, and Sustainability. The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time?
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Our health in the cloud: Enabling strategic policy goals for a data-driven vision for healthcare
AWS Public Sector
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
This is a guest post by Suzanne Wait with the Health Policy Partnership and Dipak Kalra, from the European Institute for Innovation in Health Data The health sector holds approximately one third of the world’s total volume of data. One such example is the development of cloud-enabled electronic health records (EHRs).
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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy
AWS Public Sector
JULY 31, 2024
Lire cet article en Français The potential of open data to transform governance and public services is immense, but realizing this potential requires overcoming common obstacles. Read on to learn how AWS is empowering customers to achieve their open data objectives. This will empower employees to use data effectively in their roles.
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6 foundational capabilities you need for generative AI
AWS Public Sector
MARCH 15, 2024
Business considerations: Appoint a cross-functional team A cross-functional team will be best able to balance AI skills with knowledge of the target business process(es) and considerations around the source data and what happens to it. Consider: Where does the desired data exist now?
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10 success factors for implementing e-procurement system
Open Contracting Partnership
JUNE 4, 2024
Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. Transparency on legal and regulatory frameworks To make e-GP systems work effectively, it’s essential to have supportive legislative arrangements in place.
Use modular architecture for flexible and extensible RAG-based generative AI solutions
AWS Public Sector
MAY 31, 2024
It references an authoritative knowledge base outside of its training data sources before generating a response. It can further integrate individual data with the extensive general knowledge of the FM to personalize chatbot interactions. Plug in different vector stores to balance cost, performance, and accuracy.
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Governments need to plan for the entire product lifecycle when they purchase technology today
American City & Country
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Local governments face issues that range from balancing public safety and individual privacy rights to managing vast amounts of data securely and efficiently. Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.”
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Mastering How to Get Government Contracts
Select GCR
MAY 7, 2024
Securing a contract involves preparing a competitive proposal that meets the solicitation document’s requirements, developing effective pricing strategies that balance competitiveness with profitability, and potentially navigating subcontracting and partnerships. Each agency has specific contractual needs.
Navigating CSRD Regulation: What Procurement, Supply Chain, and Finance Leaders Need to Know
ivalua
JUNE 11, 2023
It introduces several amendments to the NFRD and expands the scope of reporting obligations to foster greater transparency and comparability. Balance sheet assets greater than €20 million More than 250 employees Even though the UK is not part of the EU, CSRD will impact some UK-incorporated companies.
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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa
Open Contracting Partnership
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. The legal framework as well as the creation of procurement oversight agencies led to more accountability, with a clear set of rules as well as checks and balances.
How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff
American City & Country
AUGUST 28, 2024
Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. Promote transparency and accountability: Enhance transparency in budgetary processes and expenditures to increase trust with constituents.
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Responsible AI for mission-based organizations
AWS Public Sector
JULY 24, 2024
It is critical to think responsibly about these technologies so that all users of the ML system are treated fairly, data is appropriately protected, and individuals can make informed choices about consent. This approach will help ensure your AI systems are fair, transparent, and secure. What is responsible AI?
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Tax Administration 3.0: IDB open-source software leverages digital accounting data to facilitate and increase compliance
Inter-American Development Bank
FEBRUARY 19, 2023
Digital transformation is changing how government agencies relate to citizens, allowing them to meet their constituents’ needs faster, fairer, and more transparently. TAs must further capitalize on data and automation to improve their services and processes. What is CACAO?
10 common myths holding women back in government contracting and leadership
Open Contracting Partnership
MARCH 8, 2024
We focused on the plan, the data, and the purpose of what we want to achieve. Open data solutions such as CREDERE can help these businesses access the financial services they need in order to confidently bid on and deliver government contracts. It’s not just an administrative process.
Procurement flow-downs can’t be one-sided
Federal News Network
APRIL 19, 2024
These regulations and associated guidance address a host of contracting officer responsibilities, including but not limited to, proposal evaluation, negotiations, price and/or cost analysis, data rights, and foreign acquisition ( e.g. , TAA). This step towards greater transparency is in the public interest.
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More model contractual AI clauses -- some comments on the SCL AI Clauses
How to Crack a Nut
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The clauses include a few substantive requirements implicit in the allocation of the respective obligations (eg on data or third party licences) but mostly refer to detailed schedules of which there is no default proposal, or to industry standards (and thus have this limitation in common with eg the EU’s model AI clauses).
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From Data to Action: Learn How Latin American and Caribbean Governments Are Pursuing Better Governance
Inter-American Development Bank
MARCH 15, 2024
Each graphic has a link to the original data in excel that can be freely downloaded. Most of the data in the report were collected from government officials via specifically designed surveys, who also provided evidence to validate their answers with other sources. On average, 36.3% percentage points (p.p.) below the OECD average (47%).
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Streamlining Government Records: How County Clerks are Leading the Digitization Uprising
Extract Systems
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
We have recognized the need for change; over the past decade or so, county clerks have been making the transition to digital records to improve accessibility, speed of quick document retrieval, security of data, and to ensure transparency within government agencies. Software like Extract’s ID Shield is flexible as well.
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Powering the generative AI era: What you missed at the AWS Public Sector Symposium Brussels
AWS Public Sector
MARCH 21, 2024
Levy highlighted how AWS is helping customers use generative AI in a responsible and flexible way, providing more options to enable digital sovereignty through the upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud , and showing dedication to data protection and privacy, sustainability, and social impact.
4 steps EdTechs can take to grow their profitability on AWS
AWS Public Sector
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
EdTech leaders must strike the right balance of investment to drive growth, and a return on investment for their owners. This tradeoff works best when organizations embrace FinOps, Cloud Financial Management (CFM) best practices that take a data-driven approach to maximizing business value from cloud spend.
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AWS solutions for use cases across public sector industries
AWS Public Sector
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
The collected visual data then flows into the AWS Cloud , where artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics scan for any signs of impending failure due to corrosion, cracks, vegetative clearances, evidence of animals, storm damage, or manufacturing defects.
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DIS Conference 2024: Higher, Faster, Further? Drivers of Innovation in Arbitration
Kluwer Arbitration
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The discussion also addressed the potential tension between diversity and qualification, debating how to balance the two. Bucki advocated for a broader approach to efficiency, emphasizing that it should encompass a balance of time, cost, and quality.
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Impact of PPN 02/24 on AI Use in Public Procurement
Tracker Intelligence
DECEMBER 8, 2024
This technology enables teams to collect vast amounts of data and have the ability to resolve complex data-related challenges. These systems can provide more accurate data collection, resolve complex challenges more efficiently, and help to deliver more tailored solutions. What is PPN 02/24?
Building More Than Contracts: Two Six Technologies’ Mandy Walter-Beam is Modernizing GovCon for Speed, Strategy and Security
WashngtonExec
APRIL 10, 2025
Her goal has always been to strike a balance between structure and speed: ensuring the company meets every requirement while still moving quickly and efficiently. We are also modernizing our internal systems to ensure our ability to efficiently meet compliance requirements while providing transparency.
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A focus on people: Delivering better public procurement
Open Contracting Partnership
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
At first glance, procurement might seem like a purely behind-the-scenes function, its quality measured by efficiency and transparency; but, in reality, procurement is about how government delivers for people. But many SNAP users must call a hotline or buy a small item to check their balance on a receipt.
Thoughts on what is fair and reasonable?
Federal News Network
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
It also prescribes and/or recommends additional data collection requests for FSS contractors. The PAP includes other directives and guidance that raise questions regarding equity and balance in the evaluation and negotiation of FSS pricing terms. To its credit, FAS is working to update/revise PAP 2021-05.
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COFC: Lapsed SAM Registration During Proposal Evaluations Makes Offeror Ineligible for Award
SmallGovCon
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
COFC went through the factors that merit an injunction—(1) likelihood of success on the merits; (2) irreparable harm absent immediate relief; (3) the balance of interests weighing in favor of relief; and (4) that the injunction serves the public interest—and determined that all the requirements for a preliminary injunction were met.
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AI & sustainable procurement: the public sector should first learn what it already owns
University of Bristol
OCTOBER 14, 2019
For example, new analytics applied to open transport data can significantly improve procurement planning to support more sustainable urban mobility strategies, as well as the emergence of new models for the procurement of mobility as a service (MaaS). It is difficult enough to have access to information on ‘live’ tender procedures.
How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement
Open Contracting Partnership
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Can everything be green?
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Missouri’s Redacted Witnesses
Extract Systems
MARCH 26, 2024
Balancing transparency and privacy is always a tricky challenge, particularly with records that are made available to the general public. Louis’ NPR affiliate looked into the redaction processes of Missouri courts , which have been called the, “least transparent in the nation.”
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CTA
ivalua
APRIL 27, 2023
The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time? What’s more, since running an efficient supply chain involves a complicated balance of risk, sustainability, social governance and cost, technology is absolutely critical.
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Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia
Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting
JANUARY 21, 2020
GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. It establishes a robust methodology to explore what impacts can be measured and also explores the channels through which transparency is indeed impactful – e.g. who are the stakeholders and enablers that are the actual drivers of change using increased transparency.
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The Contents of Journal of International Arbitration, Volume 41, Issue 3 (June 2024)
Kluwer Arbitration
AUGUST 12, 2024
This paper considers the prevailing approaches taken across different jurisdictions and ultimately proposes an alternative approach for common law to strike a better balance among all competing interests. In addition, lists of arbitrators and specialists with expertise in climate change-related fields of knowledge can be made available.
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The True Power of a Payments Partnership
ivalua
MAY 19, 2022
Our unrivaled licensing and banking networks are setting new standards of security, transparency, and speed for B2B cross-border payments,” said Sinead Fitzmaurice, CEO of TransferMate Global Payments – a subsidiary of the Clune Tech Group. “We All this is transparent across the payment journey, to the buyer and supplier.
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North Carolina on the Way to Full Court Records Access
Extract Systems
JANUARY 30, 2024
The big benefits that the state will see from this switch include greater access, transparency, and efficiency. Access, of course, needs to be balanced with privacy, which is why it’s so important to those filing court documents to be aware of any personally identifiable information (PII) within them.
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Budgeting Is a Collaborative Effort
GovLoop
JANUARY 24, 2023
“What people are expecting is personalized, online, digital services for those things that can be digitized,” said Charlie Francis, Senior Consultant at Questica, which provides multi-user budgeting, performance measures, transparency and data visualization software for governments.
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Considering AI as a Strategic Tool
FedInsider
OCTOBER 16, 2024
While much attention is being paid to ways to harness the power of AI, equally important are questions of safety and transparency, and the balance of collaboration between government and industry to advance strategic leadership in the global AI race.
Considering AI as a Strategic Economic Tool
FedInsider
OCTOBER 15, 2024
While much attention is being paid to ways to harness the power of AI, equally important are questions of safety and transparency, and the balance of collaboration between government and industry to advance strategic leadership in the global AI race.
Are Latin American and Caribbean Countries Complying with Their Fiscal Rules?
Inter-American Development Bank
OCTOBER 20, 2022
One way to have comparable data across countries is to monitor numerical compliance with the rules. On one hand, the structural balance rule (SR) is the highest and stands at 79%. The fiscal balance (BBR) and debt rules (DR) also present high compliance rates, 69%, and 75%, respectively.
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