How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

And there are attributes or properties influencing the interpretability of a model (eg clarity) for which there are no evaluation metrics (yet?). Public procurement is thus increasingly expected to play a crucial gatekeeping role in the adoption of digital technologies for public governance and the delivery of public services.

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Procurement Public Procurement Ethics Transparency 52

University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Digitalisation could reduce the administrative burden through automation, generate data insights to inform policies and boost efficiency in public spending, and serve as a living lab for GovTech experimentation. I will fully develop a proposal for such authority in coming months, in another part of my research project.

Procurement 52

Procurement Government Government Buyers 52

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

Finally, agencies are instructed to harmonize AI management requirements across agencies to create efficiencies and opportunities for sharing resources. Before implementing any rights-impacting AI, agencies must first identify and assess the AI’s impact on equity and fairness and mitigate any algorithmic discrimination when it is present.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Impact Assessment Procurement Innovation 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Creating consistency across the program based on sound application of the rules will increase efficiency and reduce costs for FAS. The bill aims to protect consumers and the public by mandating that AI companies conduct risk and impact assessments for “critical impact” AI systems, followed by the certification of these systems.

E-procurement 52

E-procurement Supply Chain Price Procurement 52

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

CBP has created a privacy threshold analysis an internal document used to analyze potential privacy risks associated with a new technology and whether a privacy impact assessment is necessary for Starlink internet, a step from agency officials that indicates that the SpaceX service is under serious consideration.

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Thresholds Impact Assessment Telecommunication Evaluation 93

FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2025

The guidance signaled the importance of CIOs for the Trump administrations plans particularly the software and technology-focused marching orders for the Department of Government Efficiency team. But among people who have held that title within agencies, reactions are mixed.

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