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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 targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

The UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has published a report on Transparency in the procurement of algorithmic systems (for short, the ‘AI procurement report’). 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.

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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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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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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

On March 28, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-24-10 , Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence (Memo), updating and implementing OMB’s November 2023 proposed memorandum of the same name. race, age, sex, etc.);