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.

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GovLoop

MAY 26, 2023

By definition, data ethics refers to the norms of behavior that promote appropriate judgments and accountability when acquiring, managing or using data. But AI’s expansive use has made data ethics increasingly important. 4 Basic Principles of Data Ethics Ownership: Individuals own their data or their information.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Additionally, LLMs have not demonstrated their compliance with Federal and USAID security requirements, provided transparency around the data collected, and addressed the resulting Privacy and Records Management implications.” Madison Alder contributed to this article.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

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. For example, Thailand’s procurement data could be improved by releasing planning data and ensuring a more timely publication.

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GovCon Wire

JULY 12, 2024

The importance of cybersecurity and the consequences of a data breach are widely understood. What about

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 28, 2024

In May 2022, the European Commission (EC) proposed to set up a European Health Data Space (EHDS). The EHDS will establish a common framework and infrastructure for the use of health data for research, innovation, policy-making, and regulatory activities in the European Union (EU). At AWS, security will always be our top priority.

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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.

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VWV

AUGUST 2, 2024

A key change in the new Procurement Act is the enhanced transparency regime. One of the most significant changes in the new Procurement Act is the transparency regime. For more detailed advice on how the new transparency regime will apply to your procurements, please get in touch at srickard@vwv.co.uk.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

However, the data surrounding these procurement processes has traditionally been fragmented and difficult to access. Only about 20 percent of the total procurement data is readily available and searchable at the EU level through the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) portal.

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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. Semarang City made a similar agreement in 2023.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

More often than not, public procurement of technology is viewed as non-transparent, uncompetitive, poorly planned, inefficient, costly, and having high failure rates. They legislated and developed incentives for improved reporting and transparency, adopted the Open Contracting Data Standard, embraced collaboration, and set clear policy goals.

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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. More recently, it canceled a RD$1.3

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 26, 2024

They are trying to unlock insights from their data, deliver better customer experiences, and improve operations using cutting-edge technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and other data analytics tools. This approach also led to the creation of data silos.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 20, 2024

Those recommendations include ensuring FedRAMP usage in agencies, releasing guidance for agencies’ implementation of transparent data requirements, modernizing legacy systems to avoid higher costs for maintenance, avoiding cybersecurity pitfalls and updating procedures for electronic information system functionalities for recordkeeping systems. “OMB

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Malaysia must set out clear principles for all public procurement procedures in a single piece of overarching legislation and create a robust and comprehensive public procurement law rooted in open contracting principles – putting transparency, competition, and efficiency at the forefront.

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FedScoop

JUNE 28, 2024

Five years into its existence, the federal organization charged with helping agencies establish best practices for the use, protection and dissemination of data is a year away from sunsetting and still waiting on the release of White House guidance critical to its advisory mission. 28, 2023, but the senator never received a response. “At

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At 2 am on Saturday morning, the day after the 10th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) was meant to end in Atlanta, exhausted negotiators finally adopted a resolution on “ Promoting transparency and integrity in public procurement in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ”.

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Spend Network

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Data-driven decision-making in the realm of government procurement has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. The mountains of raw data generated through procurement processes holds untapped potential to drive efficiency, transparency, and optimal resource allocation.

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FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

But the agency’s provisional approval of a few generative AI products — which include ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Claude 2, DALL-E2, and Grammarly, per a privacy impact assessment — call for closer examination in regard to federal transparency. Zhou also pointed to record management and data storage as a potential issue.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Open source geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) analyses along with Internet of Things (IoT)-connected sensors can power near real-time data built on the cloud and assist in decision-making. project is designed to use geospatial big data and AI/ML to mitigate the impact of deforestation. The SeloVerde 2.1

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FedScoop

MARCH 14, 2024

Some workers simply explored beta sites to test how various gen AI tools functioned, Shive said, while others were “writing term papers using generative AI” and others connected those gen AI tools to “external public-facing data, which was perfectly fine.” But there was a downside to GSA’s gen AI testing free-for-all.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Centering worker empowerment is considered by DOL to be the document’s “North Star.” That principle pushes employers and developers to integrate “early and regular input from workers into the adoption and use of AI.”

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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

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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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Specifically, the platform will: Simplify the procurement process for suppliers: Suppliers will only need to enter their information once, which can then be reused across multiple tenders Collect data about procurement Be where all the procurement notices will be published, improving transparency by having them all in one place.

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GovLoop

MAY 10, 2024

In Part 1 , we told you about some of the ways government agencies are using data to make a difference. But data — collected regularly — helps agencies compete by enabling them to monitor trends and plan. To foster a healthy and productive workforce, effective data analysis : Integrates disparate HR systems and eliminates data silos.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. Transparency on legal and regulatory frameworks To make e-GP systems work effectively, it’s essential to have supportive legislative arrangements in place.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Second, the realignment provides an opportunity to increase transparency for customer agencies and industry partners seeking to do business with FAS. The new structure also can enhance transparency with regard to guidance impacting the MAS program. Third, the alignment provides an opportunity to improve data management.

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GovSpend

APRIL 29, 2024

Delving into data is a passion of mine. Whether analyzing financials, customer KPIs, marketing data, or federal spending data, I rely on data for not just monitoring the performance of our business and our government, but for making informed decisions with real-time information.

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GovLoop

MARCH 5, 2024

But there are strategies that make effective cyberattacks less likely and that protect data on which government depends. It’s a matter of if, not when,” said Chris Sprague, Principal Technologist with Pure Storage, which delivers forward-thinking security and data protection via a cloud experience. Breaches will happen.

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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.”

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FedScoop

JULY 25, 2024

TIGTA also gave the IRS kudos for its transparency in how it uses the sign-on tool, posting a Privacy and Civil Liberties Impact Assessment for the Secure Access Digital Identity system to its website.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 15, 2024

Business considerations: Appoint a cross-functional team A cross-functional team will be best able to balance AI skills with knowledge of the target business process(es) and considerations around the source data and what happens to it. If your use case means you need to train a bespoke machine learning (ML) model, then you’ll need data.

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2023

By integrating the EIC’s functionalities in their procurement practices, organizations can dramatically accelerate sustainability agendas with reliable emissions data for all the direct and indirect products and services they acquire, and establish transparent reporting standards.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 13, 2024

“Many of the IRS’s plans to improve transparency rely on updating the agency’s technology,” Collins wrote. “As The post IRS should bring back Technology Retirement Office, watchdog says appeared first on FedScoop.

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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. It focuses on how public sector entities can enhance compliance and transparency. What is Data Analytics in Procurement?

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FedScoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

said during the hearing that the benefits of AI “particularly as it relates to Congress is how it contributes to our system of democracy, which ultimately relies on trustworthy data governance strategy. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y.,

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