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

University of Bristol

New and heightened governance challenges From a governance perspective, ensuring adequate decision-making in procurement digitalisation requires that the potential benefits from the adoption of digital technologies within this feasibility boundary is assessed against new governance risks and requirements for their mitigation.

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

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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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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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. In other words, it would be preferable to have a more continuous spectrum of mitigation measures in the context of waivers as well.