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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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GAO budget request puts premium on modernization efforts

FedScoop

The Government Accountability Office has modernization on its mind for fiscal 2025, with a report on its budget request released this week aimed in part at fueling the congressional watchdog’s embrace of cloud technology. The post GAO budget request puts premium on modernization efforts appeared first on FedScoop.

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White House, GSA move to streamline procurement process with new data tool

FedScoop

Harada said OFPP, which is housed within the Office of Management and Budget, envisions the new tool dovetailing with the existing RFI process that agencies currently use within the Federal Register. We’re not telling agency CDOs what to do in their data strategy within their agencies,” Wilson said.

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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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CFTC wants to transform enforcement work through AI and data ‘marathon’

FedScoop

Few agency workers across the federal government are more closely and publicly associated with their area of expertise than Ted Kaouk is with data. We ingest and manage over 15 billion records per day. So hopefully it gives a sense of the volume of data that we’re managing.” derivatives markets. “So

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The Future of Data-Based Decision-Making

GovLoop

For instance, “If you’re on Windows XP and you’re relying on faxes, those tools are so old that [new] analysis tools can’t read [your data],” Kowalski said. And with an unthinkable amount of data in the world, errors are inevitable with outdated IT.

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Controlled sandboxes and open data: A look inside GSA’s AI-themed hackathon

FedScoop

Atlanta and New York City and co-sponsored by Microsoft and OpenAI, was part of the agency’s efforts to get the federal government to open up authoritative data and set it up for usability, GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan told reporters in D.C. Protecting data and privacy were top priorities, Shive said. “We

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