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

FedScoop

The Department of Labor is spelling out how artificial intelligence can boost job quality without harming the rights of workers, releasing a roadmap this week that aims to empower workforces in underserved communities as use of the emerging technology proliferates.

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Tax watchdog says IRS has work to do on Login.gov security controls

FedScoop

TIGTA also gave the IRS kudos for its transparency in how it uses the sign-on tool, posting a Privacy and Civil Liberties Impact Assessment for the Secure Access Digital Identity system to its website.

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Law enforcement agencies need standardized AI field testing, presidential advisers say

FedScoop

A potential checklist compiled by the subcommittee includes callouts to describe the AI tool and its intended use, document use limitation plans, conduct an AI impact assessment, identify the testing method and complete a questionnaire designed to “brainstorm and identify metrics” associated with the system.

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Harnessing cloud solutions to tackle water challenges

AWS Public Sector

Climate change is a global issue, but its localized impacts can vary significantly across different regions. These extreme events, and water quantity and quality issues more broadly, are pressing concerns in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, further aggravated by the uncertain impacts of climate change.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

Especially because, while the CCS AI DPS tries to address some issues, such as ethical risks (though the effectiveness of this can also be queried), it makes clear that ‘quality, price and cultural fit (including social value) can be assessed based on individual customer requirements’.

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Racial Equity Budgeting: A Powerful Tool to Reduce Inequalities

Inter-American Development Bank

Instead, it is about the quality of spending and analyzing fiscal policies and budgetary decisions to understand their impact. Data quality and availability are key. Generate disaggregated data to enable racial equity assessments, conduct monitoring and evaluation, and generate evidence to strengthen decision-making.

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

University of Bristol

Public buyers seeking to procure goods, services or works from the market need to process large amounts of information to choose a responsible provider offering the best possible terms on quality, cost, experience, etc. I will fully develop a proposal for such authority in coming months, in another part of my research project.