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.”

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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.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 4, 2025

Traditional procurement approaches prioritised lowest price, which led to unintended consequences like accepting bids of lower quality, a lesser performance record or that did not adequately allow buyers to consider equity, sustainability or socio-economic objectives like creating local jobs.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the DOD works with industry to adopt 5G networks, prototyping and sandboxing 5G capabilities can bolster adoption and innovation. These capabilities can also help with real-time data collection from all sources and devices – like drones, satellites, weapons systems, sensors and more. 5G is also a security enabler.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2025

To address this growing challenge, the Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub) at Cal Polypowered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and part of the AWS Cloud Innovation Centers (CIC) programtook action. This workflow includes final review and editing of generated word documents by the procurement specialist to ensure a quality output.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Growing Need for Enhanced Event Safety With the increasing frequency of large-scale events, procurement teams are tasked with finding reliable, high-quality solutions for crowd control and event safety. With OMNIA Partners, procurement teams have access to a portfolio of suppliers who provide quality, compliance, and reliability.

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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).

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

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. There was also a lack of data on the volume and outcome of audits.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This proposed statutory authority will immediately open up a world of innovation and efficiency for the government and industry. Sometimes, quality, delivery, innovation, or other benefits are more important than price. Competition at the order level includes price competition.

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ivalua

JANUARY 27, 2021

27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Ivalua, a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions, and the International Association for Data Quality, Governance and Analytics (IADQGA) today announced a partnership to improve the use of data in procurement and supply chain decisions. REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The data challenge and opportunities Whether it’s a new innovative medicine which follows a journey from lab to patient or a generic or medical product which goes from a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility to a patient, ensuring faster discovery, delivery, and availability of medicines is both critical and challenging.

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GovSpend

JANUARY 22, 2025

2024: A Year of Milestones and Momentum at GovSpend We began the event with reflections on 2024, a year where we set records for nearly every metric we track – users, product usage, new features released, and new highs for every data metric weve ever tracked.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 25, 2024

Since then, 229 organizations have contributed innovations to the program to help address disparities in social determinants of health around the world. Eighty percent of health and quality-of-life outcomes as well as health risks are driven by these factors.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2024

They apply that frugal approach to IT: they build and operate only what they need to pursue their mission, and constantly innovate both to meet mission objectives and optimize cost. Through their long history, Urban has adopted traditional and innovative architectures. R Is now the best programming language for innovation at Urban.”

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Telles.eu

APRIL 18, 2023

Albert has already done a deep dive into the Commission's recent Communication on the Public Procurement Data Space , so for those of you that are yet to get acquainted with the Communication his blogpost is probably the best starting point. Wouldn't it be great if all that data was captured in a single place?

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 18, 2024

ASPPH’s mission is to advance academic public health by mobilizing the collective power of its members to drive excellence and innovation in education, research, and practice. While ASPPH provides many services, members consistently rank the curated data resources published on the Data Center Portal (DCP) as a top benefit.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A core focus of the Future of Government Awards is the importance of open source,” said Joe Hooper, director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development. Digital advocates of the year Winner: Digital Identity Directorate Team – Brazil The Digital Identity Directorate Team implemented the innovative GOV.BR

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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. One such example is the development of cloud-enabled electronic health records (EHRs).

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A lack of available water quality data makes it difficult to provide decision support in water-related sectors such as food production, energy security, health, economic development, and climate change resilience. Data is key to addressing current water challenges.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This means companies are under more pressure than ever to innovate at pace. As a result, the role of the supplier has grown in importance – for example, much of the innovation in the aerospace market comes from suppliers rather than traditional aerospace firms. Cost-focused approaches block innovation.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While there is no shortage of innovation in the K12 sector, the inability to scale innovation stands out as one of the most common roadblocks to transformation across the vast and diverse K12 population—including students, teachers, and administrators. During the panel discussion, the group identified four key themes: 1.

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GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With an extensive background in data management, Nate brings a unique skillset to the helm and is well-equipped to lead GovSpend into a new chapter of data delivery and AI technology. With troves of information available, the marketplace should be a breeding ground for data innovation, revealing opportunities.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Department of Labor is spelling out how artificial intelligence can boost job quality without harming the rights of workers, releasing a roadmap this week that aims to empower workforces in underserved communities as use of the emerging technology proliferates. The stakes are high.

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FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

During a session on public sector innovation at Google Cloud Next ’24, leaders from the World Bank, the United Nations Population Fund, and the United Nations Office for Project Services shared strategies for boosting productivity by fostering operational consistency and shared understanding. We aim to break the data silos.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

The innovative school serves as a lifelong learning hub in one of the nation’s poorest areas, empowering students and villagers to become active stewards of their society and fostering social and economic progress. Mechai Bamboo School in rural Thailand has an unconventional approach to help alleviate poverty and give back to the community.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 26, 2023

One option for a workplace makeover is shared quality time. Hamilton said that “the people who value shared quality time, they’re going to appreciate you, and you didn’t have to go into an office to do it.” To read more about ways to innovate successfully, download it here: Get the guide Illustration by Calista Lam Favorite

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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

Whether you’re planning to use more AI or just want to improve analytics and tighten cybersecurity, good data management must be the foundation for your efforts. In 2024, agencies will need to get their data in shape to make the most of it. The Federal Data Strategy, released in 2018, set high-level goals for using and handling data.

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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.”

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FedScoop

JULY 29, 2024

innovators and industry and access to quality products and services that benefit all.” The public-private partnership would also include an information and data-sharing hub and a collaborative pilot program on CETs. The White House said in May that the U.S.

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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.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 20, 2025

Why Watch In 2025, instead of chasing the latest bright shiny LLM, Kalaria’s team is heavily focused on getting the fundamentals right, like improving data quality that directly impacts GenAI quality and mission outcomes. They are also prioritizing rapid innovation and results evaluation (vs.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 20, 2025

In particular, Kronimus credited federal agencies for adopting cloud technologies that innovate and automate internal processes while developing better ways to meet mission objectives. In pursuit of that goal, Kronimus puts emphasis on data, which should be the foundation of policymaking and leveraging it as a strategic asset.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How can you help your agencies’ innovation efforts? Collaboration is an essential component of innovation, so agencies should nurture this quality whenever possible. My best advice is to play the long game by building relationships,” said Carlos Rivero, Virginia’s former Chief Data Officer. 2 – Avoid easy fixes.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We must confront the nation’s most urgent health and environmental challenges today by expanding our range of innovative technology capabilities, aligning those capabilities to our mission, and optimizing our overall mission support operations,” EPA Chief Information Officer Vaughn Noga said in a statement included in that release. “We

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 23, 2024

A former instructor himself, Ritter saw that AI could be used to offer teachers private feedback on the qualities they were typically evaluated on—which had been largely subjective in the past. Empowering AI to do more of the measuring could make these qualities quantitative, providing concrete feedback for teachers. The end result?

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 26, 2024

Introduction Government authorities such as tax, unemployment insurance, and other finance agencies across the US and globally are seeking ways to innovate. Amazon Web Service (AWS) public sector customers say that realizing value from their data is challenging, in part, because the data is siloed, and difficult to access, share, and use.

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