Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society.

Corruption 77

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 77

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 18, 2024

While ASPPH provides many services, members consistently rank the curated data resources published on the Data Center Portal (DCP) as a top benefit. ASPPH’s technical team has built custom web applications that capture and store data in a relational database. The production server stored raw data from multiple sources.

Data 76

Data Education Distribution Collaboration 76

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s world of siloed and scattered data, agencies often have an incomplete picture of their constituents. But adopting an integrated, digital data platform can vastly improve how agencies do business and interact with the public. But agencies that look more deeply can greatly impact lives.

Integration 97

Integration Integrity Data Quality 97

FedScoop

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nearly two years after launching its bureau chief data officer program, the Department of State is seeing success and aiming to almost quadruple the size of its current cohort, Farakh Khan, director of communications, culture and training at the agency’s Center for Analytics, told FedScoop in a recent interview.

Data 98

Data Collaboration Efficiency Accountability 98

Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate’s National Collaborative Procurement Division (NCPD) administers the Scottish national collaborative frameworks and contracts for the whole of the Scottish Public Sector, as well as agreements that can be accessed by central government organisations of the Scottish Government.

Collaboration 68

Collaboration E-catalogue Framework Agreement E-procurement 68

GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. EJI draws its data from the CDC, Census Bureau, Environmental Protection Agency, and Mine Safety and Health Administration.

Data 104

Data Evaluation Education Quality 104

Extract Systems

MARCH 12, 2024

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has declared it an imperative that state government staffs have a “command of data management and an understanding that data is a critical state government asset.” Certain roles, like the CIO’s, have and will always require a focus on data quality.

Data 52

Data Government Government Quality 52

GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

Discussions about the value of an enterprise approach to data governance often miss an important point: The difference it actually makes to anyone outside the IT department or the chief data officer’s (CDO) team. I thought about that while listening to a recent GovLoop virtual event on data virtualization.

Data 105

Data Education Quality Budget 105

FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

These tools enhance efficiency and change how governmental bodies collaborate, access information and serve the public. By leveraging Workspace tools like Google Docs and Sheets, UNOPS has streamlined project management and data handling and significantly reduced operational friction while enhancing user experience.

Collaboration 69

Collaboration Innovation Efficiency Integration 69

FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which released the draft Wednesday, establishes the following four goals: “promote health and wellness, enhance the delivery and experience of care, accelerate research and innovation and connect the health system with health data.”

Data 98

Data IT Strategic Planning Electronics 98

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Across all aspects of healthcare, from diagnostics and imaging to genomics and personalized healthcare, the demands for healthcare data availability, storage, compute, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly accelerating. Use a risk-based classification framework with granular examples and guidance.

Data 73

Data Government Government Procurement 73

ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A partnership between Clarifai and Crimson Phoenix will bring advanced artificial intelligence-powered data labeling and computer vision capabilities to unstructured data, such as images and video, for the intelligence and defense sectors.

Quality 59

Quality Collaboration Data 59

GovLoop

MAY 22, 2023

The Problem: Need for reliable, real-time data Agencies often lack reliable, real-time data that would expose the extent of a problem and suggest possible solutions. In addition, the allocation of funding for the Chicago Head Start program has become unclear, and officials might stop compiling Head Start data citywide as a result.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Education Public Private Partnership Data 52

GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Agencies often lack reliable, real-time data that would expose the extent of a problem and suggest possible solutions. Unlike the Chicago suburbs and elsewhere in Illinois, the city lacked until recently a research-gathering body that offered a broad spectrum of data about these youngsters. Solution: An Integrated Data Platform.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Education Public Private Partnership Data 52

ivalua

JUNE 12, 2020

The need for Procurement to improve collaboration with suppliers, and other stakeholders, has gained broad acceptance in recent years. Looking beyond Covid-19, virtually any of Procurement’s growing list of objectives can be better achieved through better collaboration. Improving CSR/sustainability? Accelerating innovation?

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Supplier Supply Chain Procurement 52

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

million Thai citizens seeking treatment for pollution-related illnesses at the start of 2024 ( up 23 percent from 2023, according to data from the country’s National Economic and Social Development Council). In parts of the country, air pollution reached some of the world’s deadliest levels in recent years, with 1.6

Quality 80

Quality Education Public Goods Data 80

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These extreme events, and water quantity and quality issues more broadly, are pressing concerns in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, further aggravated by the uncertain impacts of climate change. Climate change is a global issue, but its localized impacts can vary significantly across different regions.

Sustainability 73

Sustainability Quality Quantity Utilities 73

ivalua

APRIL 23, 2021

The Pixar building is one of the most vivid examples of how successful companies value cross functional collaboration within their organisation. This was delivered initially by having a sizeable atrium in the centre of the single office building to enable people to communicate, which it was assumed would lead to greater collaboration.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Automotive Procurement Team Supplier 52

GovLoop

JANUARY 26, 2023

Using various data points such as bank account numbers, location coordinates, equipment types and names, analysts can derive a cohesive “story” from the data that aids the mission. To do this, traditionally, analysts combed through data from various sources — spreadsheets, databases, cloud storage, etc. — Data is similar.

Data 52

Data Integration Integrity Accountability 52

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. When it comes to addressing the social determinants of health, we tend to underuse technology.

Data 78

Data Sustainability Innovation Electronics 78

FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2024

Additionally, NASA has since implemented all three integration offerings from USA Staffing: request processing, new hire and data APIs. Sharpe said that these changes will help those responsible for hiring to have data flow across systems “without duplicative effort and reducing the risk of human error.”

Quality 117

Quality Evaluation Data Integration 117

GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2023

In data transformation, it helps to view things through a different lens. It’s looking at your data like an ecosystem,” said Winston Chang, Chief Technology Officer for the Global Public Sector at Snowflake Inc. Think of the quality data that lives and breathes as an ecosystem.”

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Quality Data Import 52

AWS Public Sector

JULY 23, 2024

The tech industry in the state of Texas is booming, with a growing demand for skilled workers in cloud, information technology (IT), software development, and data analytics roles. Central to these policies is the push to ensure post-secondary programming leads to high quality career pathways for Texans.

Education 120

Education Demand Collaboration Quality 120

GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Using various data points such as bank account numbers, location coordinates, equipment types and names, analysts can derive a cohesive “story” from the data that aids the mission. To do this, traditionally, analysts combed through data from various sources — spreadsheets, databases, cloud storage, etc. — Data is similar.

Data 40

Data Integration Integrity Accountability 40

GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In data transformation and innovation, it helps to view things through a different lens. It’s looking at your data like an ecosystem,” said Winston Chang, Chief Technology Officer for the Global Public Sector with Snowflake, a leading data cloud company. Think of the quality data that lives and breathes as an ecosystem.”

Innovation 52

Innovation Data Quality Collaboration 52

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).

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Strategic Planning Balance 52

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We have the widespread roll out of Europe’s new e-forms, the launch of the Public Procurement Data Space , and a review of the Open Data Directive to include – hopefully – procurement as a high-value dataset across Europe. Data-powered red flags strengthen efforts to fight corruption. Watch this space!

Procurement 61

Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Transparency 61

Public Contracting Institute

JULY 12, 2024

This article will delve into the best practices for mitigating risks and ensuring smooth collaboration with your subcontractors. By implementing strong subcontractor management practices, prime contractors can minimize these risks and maximize the benefits of collaboration. Learn more about best practices in government contracting 2.

Management 52

Management Government Government Quality 52

Extract Systems

APRIL 9, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of government technology, the importance of data governance and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be overstated. As government agencies increasingly turn to generative AI solutions, the implications of poor data quality become even more pronounced.

Transparency 52

Transparency Data Integration Integrity 52

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To help meet this challenge in Australia, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has deepened its strategic collaboration with the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education (DoE) , which prioritises both educator and student upskilling. Consequently, there is a widening skills gap that the education sector needs to address.

Education 73

Education Public Private Partnership Collaboration Participation 73

ivalua

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations that don’t optimize supplier master data management (MDM) could have wrong information for half of their suppliers! Accurate supplier master data (SMD) is essential for procure-to-pay (P2P) automation, accuracy and analytics, but connecting data to users and systems sometimes gets bumpy.

Supplier 45

Supplier Data Procurement End to End 45

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Open contracting approach : Uganda’s Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) worked collaboratively with civil society and a development partner, the German Development Agency GIZ to build a digital contract monitoring system. We only have three regional offices and hundreds of buyers.

Public Procurement 134

Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 134

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In an age where data is the new currency, organizations are constantly seeking ways to harness the power of information to drive productivity and innovation. The data foundation: Key to generative AI applications While the RAG architecture is a game-changer, its success hinges on the quality and breadth of the underlying data foundation.

Data 78

Data Integration Integrity Innovation 78

AWS Public Sector

JULY 31, 2024

Technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the ability to manage petabytes (PB) of data help companies achieve actionable insights that improve care. And developing personalized health and care is becoming a major driver to deliver higher quality of care at lower costs. The health inequality gap is increasing.

Data 83

Data Innovation Sustainability Strategic Planning 83

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

But timelines, bureaucratic hurdles, and intricacies of the procurement process prevent the swift adoption of cutting-edge technology and potential for collaboration with innovative organizations that are essential for reforming existing processes.

Procurement 137

Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 137

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.”

Purchasing 111

Purchasing Total Cost of Ownership Government Government 111

ivalua

AUGUST 1, 2022

In doing so, they have improved supplier collaboration and created a greater capacity for resilience, innovation, and continuous improvement. . What’s more, very few can tackle the challenge of managing, maintaining, and feeding ERPs with accurate supplier master data. Accurate and quality supplier master data.

Supplier 52

Supplier Management Supply Chain Sustainability 52