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Harnessing cloud solutions to tackle water challenges

AWS Public Sector

As climate change and demographic shifts continue to strain water resources, the need for innovative, technology-driven solutions has never been more urgent. Disaster reduction efforts focus on prediction, monitoring, and impact assessment through a cycle of prevention, preparedness, emergency response, and recovery.

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

FedScoop

But with these best practices and principles, guided by President Biden’s and Vice President Harris’s leadership, we can seize this moment and promote innovation and prosperity for all.” The stakes are high. The post Labor Department’s AI roadmap geared toward ‘worker empowerment’ appeared first on FedScoop.

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Top Republican working on ‘light touch’ AI bill with focus on generative AI and self-certification system

FedScoop

is actively working to introduce a “light touch” artificial intelligence bill that would aim to protect consumers and entrepreneurs by requiring AI companies to conduct risk and impact assessments for critical-impact AI systems and then undergo certification of such systems, according to a draft of the legislation obtained by FedScoop.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Klaipeda is far from the only public agency in Lithuania using innovative approaches to procurement to make its city greener and healthier. The SPP Competence Center team consists of six experts who advise policy-makers and contracting authorities on all aspects of green, socially responsible and innovative procurement.

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

AWS Public Sector

The post includes a focus on implementation to help Australian governments responsibly innovate whilst maintaining cloud-based agility. This post outlines how AWS tools and services can support government agencies in adhering to Australia’s AI Ethics Principles when developing AI and machine learning (ML) solutions.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

However, its findings are sufficiently worrying as to require a much more robust policy intervention that the proposals in the recently released White Paper ‘AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach’ ( for discussion, see here ). None of this features in the recently released White Paper ‘AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach’.

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

University of Bristol

Procurement rules and policies seek to ensure that contract awards are free from corruption, conflicts of interest or anticompetitive practices, and that these vast sums of public funds generate value for money and support social, environmental, and innovative practices. There is always room for improvement, though.