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The power of procurement data: How one villager unveiled a corruption scandal

Open Contracting Partnership

A publicly available tool, ACT Ai aggregates data on over 31 million public procurement projects, linking them with company registration data to detect potential fraud and corruption. Concerns were raised over suspicious tendering practices such as short bidding periods, overly rigid specifications, and potential collusion.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. 1) Use of data to improve integrity: Better and open data Preventing corruption before it happened was a priority for Pimentel.

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How to Crack a Nut

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

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Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

How to Crack a Nut

To that effect, it is important to identify an area of public sector digitalisation which is primarily or solely left to ‘regulation by contract’ through procurement—to isolate it from the interaction with other tools of digital regulation (such as data protection, or sectoral regulation).

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The Future of Tax Administrations Lies in the Intelligence Generated by Big Data

Inter-American Development Bank

Digital transformation, professionalization of the public administration, and greater international tax cooperation are driving the creation of a second mission within tax administrations beyond traditional tax control: the data agency. Data Agency Transformation Factos There are three key factors that are driving this transformation.

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