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Better bike lanes in the Philippines: Civic groups won a budget for bike lanes, then followed the money

Open Contracting Partnership

During that period of emergency mobilization, Abante was focused on tracking the country’s COVID-19 response budget , alongside friends and former colleagues from his experience working in the government, academia, and civil society. We owe it to our broad coalition who fought for this budget, and the many advocates who came before us.

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House passes bill to improve Congressional Research Service data access

FedScoop

A bipartisan bill that aims to enhance the Congressional Research Service’s access to executive branch data was passed by the House of Representatives Monday via voice vote as lawmakers seek to assist their support agencies. The Modernizing the Congressional Research Service’s Access to Data Act ( H.R. CRS is a case-in-point,” Rep.

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Racial Equity Budgeting: A Powerful Tool to Reduce Inequalities

Inter-American Development Bank

This was the topic of the event Racial Equity Budgeting: Lessons from the United States and Brazil , which was organized by the Inter-American Development Bank and took place in September 2023. We discussed how racial equity budgeting works and how cities and states are applying this instrument to reduce racial inequality.

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Key Topics to Watch as Congress Works to Fund Next Year’s DoD Budget

Inside Government Contracts

For instance, Section 181 of the House NDAA would provide multiyear procurement authority for DoD to acquire domestically produced rare earth elements, including those that are a key component of large-capacity batteries used in electric vehicles.

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

Open Contracting Partnership

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. Formal guidelines have been introduced in several regions to ensure data-driven audits are conducted to a high standard. There was also a lack of data on the volume and outcome of audits. Semarang City made a similar agreement in 2023.

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B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

Open Contracting Partnership

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. The system works by collecting public procurement data and structuring it in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.

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How to Stop Worrying About IT and Focus on the Data

GovLoop

Flash also is much denser, storing the same volume of data in a smaller system. That’s why Pure Storage offers an integrated data platform with an operating system called Purity that manages that complexity. For example, you might need more storage but can work with the existing compute and networking capacity.

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