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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. Results: The reform has led to significant improvements, particularly in audits triggered by public complaints.

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

A ” catalogue ” of green procurement strategies in the European Union and the United States, prepared by the European Commission and the Office of the U.S. That opposition stems partly from the steep costs of compiling greenhouse gas emissions data, and from the uncertain impact that barring “non-compliant” contractors would have on the U.S.

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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

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.

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The power of collaboration accelerates public sector transformation in Iceland

AWS Public Sector

Though Iceland is a small country, it now ranks fifth in the UN’s global E-Government Survey from 19th when the project started. Other teams were selected as experts in service development, web development, user experience, data, and data connectivity. Therefore X-Road Data Exchange became a cornerstone of the project.

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Collaborative Frameworks update: June 2024

Scottish Government Procurement

Framework Public Bodies will be notified in advance of the effective date of any new pricing and a new Lyreco catalogue will be uploaded in due course. An updated version of the framework catalogue will be published this week (week commencing 24 June 2024) to include changes to Apple and Microsoft Surface products. to £281.31

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AWS helps Genomics England’s Multimodal programme accelerate research with whole slide images

AWS Public Sector

Pathologists have been looking at morphological patterns in patients’ tissue sections highlighted by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining for more than a century. The value of multimodal data The value of a multimodal “pathogenomic” approach is intuitive, given the complementary information each dataset contributes.

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Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity’s Assemblyline brings powerful malware analysis to AWS Marketplace

AWS Public Sector

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog where customers can find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services to build solutions and run their businesses. Assemblyline on AWS Marketplace AWS is proud to announce that during this year’s GeekWeek 9, Cyber Centre released Assemblyline in AWS Marketplace.