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

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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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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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

Explore 10 years of open contracting With so much public money at stake, we expected to find data teams in government who already knew exactly who was buying what from whom for how much. We were never just after a bit more transparency though, we wanted to transform how procurement is done.

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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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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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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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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2023

Advanced analytics refers in part to the sophisticated techniques and tools used to interpret large, complex data sets through data mining, machine learning, predictive modeling and data visualization. The benefits of advanced analytics vary depending on what an agency is attempting to…

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Extract Systems

AUGUST 1, 2023

Striking a balance between transparency and protecting sensitive information is a challenging task for government entities. Extract Systems' redaction software boasts a powerful OCR engine that utilizes machine learning to classify documents and identify data within complex unstructured files.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Transparency International UK (TI-UK) just dropped a damning report on the UK’s pandemic-era procurement of PPE. Plenty of other countries let their professionals run the show with more transparent, better structured processes. Transparency was MIA In a crisis, transparency and trust are key.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. There are several benefits to this transparent discussion. It all starts with procurement.

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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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Spend Network

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Ensuring transparency in government procurement is not only a matter of ethical governance but also a catalyst for efficiency, fair competition, and economic growth. What exactly does transparency do to ensure these things? Here's a quick overview of how it works, and what governments can do to make it a part of their processes.

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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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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Evolving Standards: Rapid technological advancements bring shifting standards, such as interoperability requirements and data privacy regulations. The Role of AI in Procurement AI offers powerful tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and transparency in procurement processes.

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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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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Agencies generate and analyze a lot of data these days. We talked to three employees at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Community Development Department (CDD) about how they use visualization to help data fulfill its purpose. There’s nothing more transparent than raw data. That’s where data visualization comes in.

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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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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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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 14, 2025

Manual orders increase overall costs, undermine compliance, and limit transparency. An automated ordering platform tied to existing contracts and sources through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), will reduce or eliminate credit fees while leveraging existing contract vehicles for price, quality, and compliance.

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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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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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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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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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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Agencies generate and analyze a lot of data these days. We talked to three employees at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Community Development Department(CDD) about how they use visualization to help data fulfill its purpose. That’s where data visualization comes in. Before, you could give them a data table and they’d accept it.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 9, 2024

Refresh 22 included the expansion of Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) as an option for contractors to 67 new Special Item Numbers (SINs) covering non-configurable products. The results also showed significant improvement in the completeness of the data and its overall use by contracting officers.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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