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Harnessing cloud solutions to tackle water challenges

AWS Public Sector

Disaster reduction efforts focus on prediction, monitoring, and impact assessment through a cycle of prevention, preparedness, emergency response, and recovery. While promoting Floodmap adoption might require more risk-related awareness building, a solution like that in Durban might require more capacity and trust building.

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Generative AI could raise questions for federal records laws

FedScoop

But the agency’s provisional approval of a few generative AI products — which include ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Claude 2, DALL-E2, and Grammarly, per a privacy impact assessment — call for closer examination in regard to federal transparency. Zhou also pointed to record management and data storage as a potential issue.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023. Approach : Lithuania launched an ambitious public procurement reform in 2021 to reduce the country’s carbon footprint and ensure every public procurement decision considers its environmental impact. Or how could buyers minimize the very real risk of greenwashing?

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

Needless to say, however, this applies to a much larger set of public sector areas of activity, and the problems are not limited to high-risk applications involving individual rights, but also to those that involve high stakes from a public governance perspective.

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OMB Releases Final Guidance Memo on the Government’s Use of AI

Government Contracts Legal Forum

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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Racial Equity Budgeting: A Powerful Tool to Reduce Inequalities

Inter-American Development Bank

Through well-designed taxation and public spending, governments in the region can reduce ethnic and racial inequalities. In the event, we discussed the experiences from the United State Federal Government, the cities of Philadelphia and Washington DC in the United States and the Brazilian state of Ceará. Federal Mandates The U.S.

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Some thoughts on the US' Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI

How to Crack a Nut

The use of AI by the US Federal Government is an important focus of the AI Executive Order. It will be subject to a new governance regime detailed in the Draft Policy on the use of AI in the Federal Government (the ‘Draft AI in Government Policy’, see also its Factsheet ), which is open for comment until 5 December 2023.