AWS Public Sector

MAY 8, 2024

Healthcare organizations invest heavily in technology and data. Using Amazon Bedrock, you can easily experiment with top FMs, and fine-tune and privately customize them with your own data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) allows us to retrieve data from outside a foundation model.

Data 84

Data Ethics Integrity Integration 84

SmallGovCon

MARCH 22, 2024

Is your March Madness bracket breaking government ethics rules? Made Washington State Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Marketing and Selling Low-Quality Ballistic Protective Equipment Produced in China to Dozens of Law Enforcement Agencies and the U.S.

Ethics 105

Ethics Government Contracts Media Quality 105

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Data-driven decision-making enables procurement teams to improve performance and align with wider organisational goals including corporate social responsibility and risk management. What is Data Analytics in Procurement? Prior purchase data is also used for demand forecasting improving resource management and operational efficiency.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Procurement Data Supply Chain 52

FedInsider

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Harnessing AI is a useful way to advance modernization goals, but AI governance—including ethical considerations, data security, and compliance with federal regulations—must remain a top priority. And increased AI implementation demand that organizations rethink how they staff, develop, and run their day-to-day operations. .”

IT 97

IT Ethics Participation Networking 97

GovLoop

AUGUST 18, 2022

Challenges remain, however, in effectively using technology tools to mine available data for useful, actionable information into the future. Barriers to full data use — before stakeholders even access it — include data quality, timeliness and relevance. Data Warehouses. Data Lakes.

Data 52

Data Warehouse Quality Strategic Planning 52

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 78

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 78

GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

Having worked in Texas state government for more than 15 years, Chief Data Officer Neil Cooke understands firsthand the difference that data can make. During his seven years there, he and his team looked at how to use data to measure various programs’ performance. One key concern is data lineage: Where did the data come from?

Data 52

Data Education Quality Strategic Planning 52

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

This demonstrates that businesses increasingly recognize diversity as a global issue and these programs provide an “ethical” mechanism to connect with customers through community engagement. However, the ethical justification is no longer the totality of the value proposition as leaders now see the overall value for their business. .

Supplier 98

Supplier E-procurement Ethics Supply Chain 98

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 5, 2024

It starts with an articulation of the problem that we are trying to solve and then brings all the right actors around the table to explore how we can work together systematically to change the policies, practices, information and agency of actors to open data and tools can support that change. Open Opps and Bidhive ).

Public Procurement 62

Public Procurement Procurement Tender Ethics 62

GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Generative AI specifically enables agencies to automate complex tasks such as content creation, data analysis and predictive modeling,” said Maria Fahmi, Executive Vice President, Technology & Engineering, with V3Gate, which specializes in providing emerging technology to the public sector. “It

Quality 52

Quality Data Ethics Import 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 16, 2024

A 2021 study by White & Case and Queen Mary University of London indicated that 49% of arbitration practitioners never or rarely employ AI tools such as data analytics or technology-assisted document review. Electronic data review has become commonplace, offering efficiency over manual methods, especially for extensive data.

Ethics 90

Ethics Data Integrity Integration 90

ivalua

APRIL 22, 2021

In many cases, international markets have different environmental and ethical regulations when it comes to how suppliers operate and treat their employees. However, leaders recognize that, in order to find those new suppliers to allow for reshoring efforts, they need to have the right data. Tealbook Helps Improve Supplier Data.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supplier Freight Ethics 52

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

KPIs are popularly related to areas such as: On time delivery Amount of rejects Cost reduction Ethical conduct Sustainable approaches Lead times KPIs can be written to measure any aspect of supplier performance but must be relevant to the contract to add value. A good tool to use to create KPIs is SMART.

Import 59

Import Procurement Supplier Supply Chain 59

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

Levy highlighted how AWS is helping customers use generative AI in a responsible and flexible way, providing more options to enable digital sovereignty through the upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud , and showing dedication to data protection and privacy, sustainability, and social impact.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Data Innovation Transparency 78

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

While physical security remains a critical focus, businesses and other public sector organizations are bolstering their security posture towards a less visible vulnerability: data and computer systems. According to IBM’s annual data breach report, 83 percent of organizations experienced more than one data breach in 2022.

Innovation 78

Innovation Data Education Evaluation 78

How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

For example, where ethical walls need to be set up within the bidding organisation to prevent conflicts of interest, how can I be sure that a shared AI bot won’t take information from one side of the ethical wall and feed it to the other? Adherence to ethical guidelines, ensuring that there is no theft of intellectual property.

Bidder 52

Bidder Tender Buyers Bidding 52

Extract Systems

AUGUST 15, 2023

Dr. Gunn’s work focuses on the good and bad of what AI is doing with Big Data. As well as using robotic process automation to automate the docketing of new court filings leveraging data from Intelligent Capture (OCR of paper filings). These are only three examples of great presentations (all on Day 1!)

Ethics 52

Ethics Utilities Quality Data 52

Public Contracting Institute

MAY 20, 2024

Compliance and Ethics Government construction projects are subject to strict compliance requirements and ethical standards. Construction projects often involve sensitive data and intellectual property, making them attractive targets for cyber threats.

Bidding 52

Bidding Government Government Negotiation 52

GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Will it raise the quality and speed of your output? Her team also manages AI platforms, monitoring who uses them and what data flows through them. Think About Your Data Most of us have been blown away by ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies — and also by some of the mistakes they make, said Kinnard.

Inventory 52

Inventory Ethics Data Transparency 52

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Working with one supplier under single-supplier systems guarantees constant quality and easier administration. They need to ensure compliance with all framework requirements and point out that they offer unique value proposition like cost savings, quality assurance, and innovative solutions.

Framework Agreement 52

Framework Agreement Procurement Supplier Tender 52

ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

At the same time, organizations have never been more exposed to risk from their supply chains, from supply continuity, quality, or ESG violations. Gain control of your supplier data. Data remains dispersed among multiple systems, with duplicates and errors common. financial data, ESG scores…), provides the requisite visibility.

Supplier 52

Supplier Management Collaboration Supply Chain 52

ivalua

MARCH 3, 2020

Its resources are too often consumed in labor-intensive tasks of lower added-value like gathering data from scattered legacy systems. Also, the gates to become a supplier to a large company are typically designed with bigger organizations in mind : dependency criteria, environmental charters, ethical declaration, quality labels, etc.

Procurement 72

Procurement Supplier Collaboration Innovation 72

ivalua

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In this way, they can be ready to face a crisis like Covid-19 or various other potential challenges — extreme weather caused by climate change, consumer demand for sustainable and ethically produced goods, trade wars or political tensions, to name a few. . Data silos also inhibit agility, Keeley said. “As

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Supplier Manufacturing 52

ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

When it comes to estimation-based forecasting, Amrest has been able to capture some data, but they need to have the right tools in place to effectively utilize their data sets. Overall, their strategy must move toward data-driven decision-making to provide real-time information visibility.

Finance 52

Finance Supply Chain Procurement Supplier 52

How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.

Procurement 52

Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52

The Softly Spark

JANUARY 13, 2025

Aligning with partners who share your values can promote ethical practices. Its important to isolate and find a partner that can provide the data back to you on what is being collected. Recommendation: Find the right sustainability certification solution for your brand and back it up with data.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Transparency Retail Education 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Under pressure to quickly identify new sources of supply, due diligence has–at times been reduced, thereby increasing the likelihood of quality issues, unknowingly supporting forced labor, or exposing organizations to fraud. With large organizations having thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Tier 1 suppliers, technology is essential.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Risk Management Management Supplier 52

Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 14, 2024

The AAA-ICDR has dedicated innovation staff members and innovation chairs that are working on a series of AI-linked initiatives and analyzing employee ideas to use AI to support case filing, create improved tools, improve process quality, and speed up workflow.

Corruption 59

Corruption Innovation Quality Import 59

How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Furthermore, in any case both the technical and the governance dimensions should be considered: the focus should not be limited to assessing the technical functionalities of the solution or its capacity to perform in a series of targeted tests, but also the adequacy of the set of control and quality management mechanisms implemented by the provider.

Public Procurement 59

Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Evaluation 59

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

Especially because, while the CCS AI DPS tries to address some issues, such as ethical risks (though the effectiveness of this can also be queried), it makes clear that ‘quality, price and cultural fit (including social value) can be assessed based on individual customer requirements’.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Recent data strongly suggests that this environment represents the new normal, with the landscape likely to get even more challenging next year. . Quality, sustainability and ethical goals are just a few that are put at risk when supplier due diligence is compromised.

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Procurement Procurement Team Supplier 40

The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

GSA is considering posting performance information from customer feedback surveys, including on-time delivery, backorders, cancellation, delivery status, data quality, contract compliance, and customer satisfaction ratings. In order to effectively complete an SSP, a company must know what regulated data (e.g.,

Price 52

Price Logistics E-procurement Procurement 52

FedScoop

AUGUST 14, 2024

Few agency workers across the federal government are more closely and publicly associated with their area of expertise than Ted Kaouk is with data. So hopefully it gives a sense of the volume of data that we’re managing.” That data, Kaouk said, is what helps the CFTC oversee market participants. derivatives markets. “So

Data 119

Data Quality Inventory Ethics 119

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 24, 2024

AWS offers a comprehensive suite of data services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for secure and scalable data storage, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth for creating high-quality training datasets, and AWS Lake Formation for building and managing data lakes with automated governance and compliance controls.

Government 80

Government Government Ethics Transparency 80

FedScoop

JANUARY 24, 2024

based researchers and educators unique access to a variety of tools, data, and support to explore the technology. The idea for a NAIRR has been under discussion for some time as a way to provide researchers with the resources needed to carry out their work on AI, including advanced computing, data, software, and AI models.

Education 63

Education Ethics Quality Demand 63

FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A FedScoop analysis of 29 of those documents found that data readiness and access to quality data, a dearth of knowledge about AI and talent with specific expertise, and finite funding levels were among the most common challenges that agencies reported. Making government AI-ready “comes down to data,” Howard said. “It

Data 132

Data Quality Government Government 132

FedScoop

APRIL 23, 2024

The ability of AI tools to process “huge streams of data” should free up scientists “to focus on high-level directions,” the report argued, with a network of AI assistants deployed to take on “large, interdisciplinary, and/or decentralized projects.” We’re dealing with tools that, at least right now, are ethically neutral,” Press said.

Risk Management 97

Risk Management Ethics Collaboration Data 97