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10 Sustainable Father’s Day Gifts

The Softly Spark

On Father’s Day I want to give a sustainable gift to the special Dads in my life. Life doesn’t come with an instruction book — that’s why we have fathers.” Or, if he’s a traditionalist, opt for a thoughtfully selected book. The post 10 Sustainable Father’s Day Gifts appeared first on Softly.

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A gentle introduction to applying AI in procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

We set out to use AI to label sentences in procurement documents that match green criteria (that is, criteria designed to reduce the environmental impact of a purchase). We chose to focus initially on furniture purchases as governments buy products in this category regularly and their green requirements are well documented.

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This Menstrual Hygiene Day Let’s Talk About Sustainable Periods

The Softly Spark

Over 50 years later the book has been made into a movie, but attitudes have not changed much. It’s clear that in order to protect the environment we need to start talking about sustainable menstrual hygiene. Didn’t everyone have this talk with their dad? Probably not. Let’s normalize periods.

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Webinar: Is Globalisation Coming to an End for Procurement?

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

With the current economic crisis that we are facing, is low-cost sourcing and global purchasing now coming to the end of their value-adding opportunity? This webinar explores what challenges we face with global purchasing, if we can overcome them and whether globalisation has had its day.

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In Kazakhstan, opening up procurement boosts public oversight and prevents millions in wasteful spending

Open Contracting Partnership

In the Kun Jarygy coalition’s first year, they detected 270 purchases with violations, resulting in five criminal cases and KZT 11.38 And the media outlet ProTenge has stopped suspicious purchases worth at least US$3 million. The media outlet ProTenge has stopped suspicious purchases worth at least US$3 million.

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Germany’s International University of Applied Sciences automates creation of educational videos using generative AI, serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector

As part of this experience, IU offers their students targeted learning videos summarizing different course content based on information captured in course books. The solution uses LLMs to generate summaries and extract additional textual information (such as bullet points) from course books.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Introducing more sustainable procurement policies and processes presents an enormous opportunity for public authorities to not only contribute to reaching carbon emission reduction goals but also to drive sustainable societal and economic development. These were refined into simple sentences to express the green requirements.