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Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Open Contracting Partnership

Alarmingly, 60% of projects bypassed initial environmental impact assessments, as it was deemed unnecessary or not required under current regulations. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) itself, in its Olympic Agenda 2020+5, emphasizes the importance of integrity, transparency, and good governance. of allocated funds.

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Harnessing cloud solutions to tackle water challenges

AWS Public Sector

Disaster reduction efforts focus on prediction, monitoring, and impact assessment through a cycle of prevention, preparedness, emergency response, and recovery. Recent advancements in flood monitoring include using satellite images for flood detection and mapping, especially in regions lacking ground-based observation systems.

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

FedScoop

That principle pushes employers and developers to integrate “early and regular input from workers into the adoption and use of AI.” Centering worker empowerment is considered by DOL to be the document’s “North Star.”

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Generative AI could raise questions for federal records laws

FedScoop

But the agency’s provisional approval of a few generative AI products — which include ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Claude 2, DALL-E2, and Grammarly, per a privacy impact assessment — call for closer examination in regard to federal transparency. The post Generative AI could raise questions for federal records laws appeared first on FedScoop.

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The Value of Self-Reflection

GovLoop

This will look different for everyone, so the idea is not to be critical of our shortcomings but to acknowledge our progress, assess where we are and where we’re headed, recenter and get back out there with intent. Reflection is a great practice to integrate into our routine.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

New legislation is required to impose specific minimum requirements of eg data governance and algorithmic impact assessment and related transparency across the public sector, to address the issue of lack of standards and metrics but without reliance on their development by and within the AI industry.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The LPPO is already exploring new opportunities to apply that data and technology, such as integrating life-cycle costing methodologies in the routine procedures of the e-procurement platform. The way we think about technology is that it has to help public buyers and suppliers conduct business easier.