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What are the main governance opportunities and challenges for procurement digitalisation?

University of Bristol

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. Policy irresistibility’ and hype in procurement digitalisation Public procurement is at its core an information-based exercise.

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

How to Crack a Nut

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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We Need to Talk About … the EU AI Act!

Kluwer Arbitration

For instance, there is a general duty of AI literacy, which means that providers and deployers of AI systems shall take appropriate measures to gain the knowledge and skills to “make an informed deployment of AI systems, as well as to gain awareness about the opportunities and risks of AI and possible harm it can cause” (Recital 56).

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

Government Contracts Legal Forum

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.);

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

In its place, the realignment focuses and centralizes MAS contracting management structure for the Office of Information Technology Category, the Office of Professional Services & Human Capital Categories, and the Office of General Supplies and Services Categories.

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

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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 then establishes specific measures to advance Federal Government use of AI. Section 10.1(b)

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Customs and Border Protection is exploring use of Elon Musk’s Starlink

FedScoop

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.