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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

The Model Law allows sustainability to be promoted through procurement via qualification criteria (under article 9, which expressly allows the procuring entity to impose environmental qualifications, and ethical and other standards that could include fair trade requirements).

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Johannesburg Arbitration Week: Southern Africa to Step into the International Arbitration Spotlight

Kluwer Arbitration

The week also promises comprehensive explorations into the African Continental Free Trade Area, delving into the future of investment protection, technological impacts on arbitration, and ethical standards, contributing significantly to the global arbitration dialogue.

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Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

How to Crack a Nut

Procurement is thus seen as a mechanism of ‘regulation by contract’ whereby the public buyer can impose requirements seeking to achieve broad goals of digital regulation, such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability, or to operationalise more general ‘AI ethics’ frameworks.

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Sole Source Procurement: A Guide to Single-Source Acquisitions

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The sole source justification process is rigorous and requires approval from the organization’s procurement services, with steps including the completion and review of a justification form, internal review and approvals, and adherence to transparency and compliance regulations to manage risks effectively.

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Analysing the potential pitfalls of “AI-judication” in Public Procurement -- guest post by Paris & Esmail

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So far, AI has already obtained credible influence in the way public procurement tenders can be drafted and submitted. Indeed, unlike other elements related to the monitoring and effectiveness of spending control, the issue of using AI tools contain its own legal and ethical quandaries.

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The Best Path Forward in International Arbitration: A Summary of the SIAC Annual India Conferences 2024

Kluwer Arbitration

A Special Address was then delivered by Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya of the High Court of Bombay where he noted the growing focus on green arbitrations, increased use of technology, greater transparency, diversity, and procedural changes as part of various reforms in international arbitration. in the draft 7th ed. SIAC Rules.

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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

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I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.