Document, Impact Assessment and Transparency

Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 31, 2025

Its hugely positive that 20 Italian civil society organizations came together as a coalition to push for transparency and accountability in the delivery of the Games. Alarmingly, 60% of projects bypassed initial environmental impact assessments, as it was deemed unnecessary or not required under current regulations.

Transparency

Transparency Bidding Sustainability Corruption

Tax watchdog says IRS has work to do on Login.gov security controls

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. The post Tax watchdog says IRS has work to do on Login.gov security controls appeared first on FedScoop.

Impact Assessment

Impact Assessment Data Transparency Quality

Generative AI could raise questions for federal records laws

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. DHS tracks its FOIAs in a public log. .”

Electronics

Electronics Impact Assessment Transparency Thresholds

Labor Department’s AI roadmap geared toward ‘worker empowerment’

FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The 17-page document, titled “ Artificial Intelligence and Worker Well-Being: Principles and Best Practices for Developers and Employers ,” details eight key priorities for AI companies and management to follow that are intended to keep the focus on “centering worker empowerment and well-being.”

Impact Assessment

Impact Assessment Transparency Quality Ethics

National framework for AI assurance in Australian government: Guidance when building with AWS AI/ML solutions

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 6, 2024

This targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures. Transparency and explainability AWS AI Service Cards provide transparency on the intended use cases, limitations, and responsible AI design choices for AWS AI services.

Government

Government Government Ethics Transparency

Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has published a report on Transparency in the procurement of algorithmic systems (for short, the ‘AI procurement report’). Some of DRCF’s findings in the AI procurement report are astonishing, and should attract significant attention.

Procurement

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement

Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 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.

E-procurement

E-procurement Price Supply Chain Procurement

Law enforcement agencies need standardized AI field testing, presidential advisers say

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The National AI Advisory Committee unanimously voted in favor of the findings presented in the Law Enforcement Subcommittee’s 24-page document on the field testing of AI tools, a move that followed approval earlier this summer of three recommendations regarding the practice.

Impact Assessment

Impact Assessment Inventory Transparency Quality

OMB Releases Final Guidance Memo on the Government’s Use of AI

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

Required Practices for all Safety- and Rights-Impacting AI Under the risk management requirements of the Memo, before any federal agency can use a safety- or rights-impacting AI, it is required to complete an AI impact assessment. race, age, sex, etc.);

Risk Management

Risk Management Impact Assessment Procurement Innovation

Some thoughts on the US' Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Here, I reflect on these documents from the perspective of AI procurement as a major plank of this governance reform. general minimum practices Both in relation to safety- and rights-impact AI uses, the Draft AI in Government Policy would require agencies to engage in risk management both before and while using AI. Section 10.1(b)

Risk Management

Risk Management E-procurement Procurement Evaluation

The Right to Regulate in the EU-Angola Sustainable Investment Agreement: What Lessons for Investment Protection?

Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Inclusion of Investors in the Lawmaking Procedure The Agreement includes a chapter dedicated to transparency and predictability in the enaction and application of investment legislation and regulation. It could be said, in Lon Fullers terms , that these constraints delineate the morality of investment legislation and regulation.

Sustainability

Sustainability Impact Assessment Transparency Import

CBP leaning into biometrics on controversial app, raising concerns from immigrant rights advocates

FedScoop

MARCH 7, 2024

The update is also intended to decrease travel document fraud and improve the agency’s “ability to identify criminals and known or suspected terrorists.” Citizenship and Immigration Services and air carriers working with CBP’s document validation initiative. The app’s update would allow nonimmigrants who are departing the U.S.

Impact Assessment

Impact Assessment Inventory Data Electronics

Anthropic eyes FedRAMP accreditation in quest to sell more AI to government

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I also expect that the government will continue to want to adopt and deploy the technology, which has been something that the national security memorandum and other government documents have been promoting. There are some bills in Congress looking at algorithmic impact assessments. What changes would be needed?

Government

Government Government Evaluation Import

Public Procurement Central

Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Tax watchdog says IRS has work to do on Login.gov security controls

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