American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fiscal cliff can lead to a range of negative outcomes that diminish community quality of life, strain household finances and stifle economic growth, including: Reduced services: Local governments may be forced to cut essential services, including public safety, education, transportation and social services. –

Government 52

Government Government Budget Quality 52

The Softly Spark

AUGUST 8, 2024

However, staying silent about your eco-friendly practices is not the solution – consumers crave transparency! Be transparent and qualify your green claims to maintain trust. Recent lawsuits illustrate how companies can modify their approach to communicating their environmental claims to ensure greater transparency.

Sustainability 98

Sustainability Transparency Buyers Quality 98

GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It empowers agencies to innovate rapidly and derive insights from large datasets that were previously impractical to process manually.” It’s important to prioritize data quality to build trust with end users. Inaccurate or low-quality data can lead to misleading outputs. But agencies may struggle to bring AI to life.

Quality 52

Quality Ethics Data Import 52

FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which released the draft Wednesday, establishes the following four goals: “promote health and wellness, enhance the delivery and experience of care, accelerate research and innovation and connect the health system with health data.”

Data 84

Data IT Strategic Planning Electronics 84

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 24, 2024

The memo, M-24-10 Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence , outlined ways in which agencies can strengthen AI governance, advance responsible AI innovation, and manage risks from the use of AI.

Government 72

Government Government Ethics Transparency 72

GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Government procurement should be transparent and efficient. With troves of information available, the marketplace should be a breeding ground for data innovation, revealing opportunities. But that effort results in transparency and insight that is like a cheat code, an unfair advantage for those who subscribe to GovSpend.

Data 105

Data Quality Purchasing Transparency 105

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A lack of available water quality data makes it difficult to provide decision support in water-related sectors such as food production, energy security, health, economic development, and climate change resilience. “Our The complexities of water data Water quality data is a complex data type.

Collaboration 101

Collaboration Quality Data Capacity 101

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. This provided transparency for all involved in managing the process in a way that wasn’t possible previously when complaints were transferred manually between agencies by email. In the third, poor quality materials had been used.

Corruption 87

Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 87

The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 12, 2024

Established to spotlight excellence and innovation in the Federal procurement landscape, the EIP Awards honor the remarkable contributions made by individuals and organizations from both government and industry in shaping the acquisition system.

E-procurement 64

E-procurement Sustainability Collaboration Procurement 64

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

Building a strong data foundation Secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure helps public sector organizations to innovate quickly while meeting strict security and compliance requirements. At the bottom layer of the generative AI stack, it is vital to have high quality, up-to-date data for training the models.

Sustainability 69

Sustainability Data Innovation Transparency 69

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2017, AWS India became the first global CSP in India to receive full empanelment for its cloud service offerings after the AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region completed MeitY’s STQC (Standardization Testing and Quality Certification) audit. Cloud technology is key to accelerating innovation in India’s public sector.

E-auction 76

E-auction Government Government E-procurement 76

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

The program holds valuable lessons for others working to empower contracting monitors with different skills and backgrounds to work closely together to foster transparency and better procurement practices in their regions. It inspired the creation of a free self-guided e-course on Open Contracting Basics too.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Participation 52

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 14, 2024

For the public sector, a transparent and stakeholder-focused sustainability strategy leads to an increased likelihood of citizen behavioural change, with resulting societal benefits. The main takeaway is that sustainability transformation takes time – but every step along the journey can be meaningful.

Sustainability 74

Sustainability Data Quality Efficiency 74

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is a guest post by Suzanne Wait with the Health Policy Partnership and Dipak Kalra, from the European Institute for Innovation in Health Data The health sector holds approximately one third of the world’s total volume of data. Transparency in the adoption of cloud is just so crucial.

Data 72

Data Sustainability Innovation Electronics 72

ivalua

MARCH 24, 2022

Further, suppliers play a pivotal role in innovation, ESG, risk management, quality, supply continuity, and many other critical organizational functions. Suppliers are key to addressing many of today’s top issues, such as improving supply chain resilience, accelerating innovation, and improving sustainability.

Supplier 52

Supplier Management Supply Chain Media 52

GovLoop

MAY 9, 2023

We need to make sure that our data is provided at low latency with a high level of quality to them and then out to the public as well,”said Kathryn Shontz, Deputy Director of the Satellite and Information Service’s Office of Ground Services within NOAA. “We That’s the level of transparency and clarity that we want to have,” Shontz said.

Data 52

Data Quality Transparency Innovation 52

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Around the world, AWS teams help customers like Doping Hafiza , Alef Education , and BriBooks use cloud as an enabler for continuous innovation, product differentiation, and business growth. At AWS, we believe that optimizing IT costs (including cloud) helps unlock budget to invest in more innovation.

Price 67

Price Demand Education Efficiency 67

Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 15, 2024

Despite ongoing debates and procedural innovations, underlying inefficiencies persist. The Trivis method counters inefficiency by enhancing clarity and transparency through visual aids, fostering the cooperation and confidence in arbitration that is crucial for improving efficiency in international dispute resolution.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Balance Corruption Transparency 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

When given opportunities, these businesses excel in delivering quality and innovation. Myth 1: Women-led and -owned businesses cannot successfully deliver government contracts Women are excelling in business. According to the World Bank, women-owned SMEs contribute 20% to the global GDP.

Government Contracts 73

Government Contracts Leadership Government Government 73

GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Will it raise the quality and speed of your output? Krista Kinnard, Director of Innovation and Engineering at the Department of Labor (DOL) and former Director of the General Services Administration’s AI Center of Excellence , helps DOL reimagine ways to accomplish tasks. Getting used to AI can be an uncertain journey.

Inventory 52

Inventory Ethics Data Education 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Redwood City, CA – November 7, 2019 – Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced a range of new innovations that enable direct material procurement and supply chain leaders to launch more profitable, successful products. The new innovations extend the leadership of Ivalua’s solutions for Manufacturing and Direct Materials.

Innovation 9

Innovation Management Quality Automotive 9

ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

Supplier Data Quality & Management in Decision Making. Transparency, or ability to scale data, across an organization. This is where Source-to-Pay systems can help – by providing procurement teams with a system that centralizes information and ensures data quality meets a high standard.

Supply Chain 69

Supply Chain Procurement Procurement Team Supplier 69

ivalua

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The business case for data-driven transparency is not hard to make. While data quality cannot be perfected and some technological innovations aren’t quite ready for prime time, tremendous improvements are possible. Below, Improve Data Quality. Improve Data Quality. This shift in thinking is not surprising.

Transparency 52

Transparency Supply Chain Data Procurement 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Regarding procurement that uses funds from development aid donors, pressure to ensure accountability and transparency in the allocation of funds has been growing. Yet, donors have only blunt tools available to monitor whether recipient governments use aid for agreed purposes.

Data 40

Data Corruption Tender Contract 40

GovLoop

JULY 11, 2023

And that increases quality output. Also in the private sector, gender, ethnic and cultural diversity correlate to increased profitability and innovation. When the organization and leadership trust people to make choices that work best for them, the outcome is higher-quality work and increased productivity.”

Distribution 45

Distribution Collaboration Quality Leadership 45

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As Einer Fogh of GIZ Uganda highlights, “there is a vibrant civil society in Uganda, with many organizations working on transparency and anticorruption. Having formal arrangements through MoUs and building their capacity and understanding has led to good quality monitoring reports that are more actionable for us.”

Public Procurement 130

Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 130

Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 11, 2024

Introducing innovative initiatives such as zero administrative fees for arbitrations , opt-in cybersecurity protocols tailored for technology disputes , and experimental evidence procedures. For example, the TIAC has launched an innovative program allowing young lawyers to shadow arbitration proceedings.

Capacity 52

Capacity Efficiency Collaboration Innovation 52

ivalua

MARCH 13, 2019

Not only do clumsy workflows increase the time (and therefore, the cost) associated with a solicitation, but they also create the impression that Public Sector decision-makers do not have the same performance and quality standards as commercial prospects. Transparency = Trust. Happy Suppliers are Engaged Suppliers.

Supplier 40

Supplier Transparency Procurement Purchasing 40

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

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’). With ‘AI quality’ capturing all the problematic issues mentioned above (and, notably, AI performance), the CCS AI DPS is highly problematic.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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.

Procurement 52

Procurement Government Government Buyers 52

ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

The modern CPO can use Smart Procurement technology to address the poor quality of data and lack of integration. Digitizing the source-to-pay process eliminates paper, unnecessary phone calls / emails and improves transparency for all stakeholders. Making Insights Actionable. Compliance in Times of Uncertainty.

Procurement 40

Procurement Supplier Capacity Risk Management 40

Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 13, 2024

Sobota affirmed that a big concern about the use of AI is precisely “the black box effect”, i.e., the lack of transparency on the sources and operations of generative AI. The real problems lie in quality control, privacy risks, and the black box system. The conclusion is that AI itself is not a problem.

Negotiation 52

Negotiation Efficiency Quality Balance 52

Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

offering innovative perspectives in this regard. He emphasized his preference for reviewing case files in English to avoid potential losses in quality due to translations. Finally , the law encourages the publication of awards with the agreement of the parties to increase transparency.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Transparency Balance Import 52

How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.

Procurement 52

Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

VIGIA is a unique initiative that allows entrepreneurs to easily find public procurement business opportunities in Paraguay, as well as provide real-time high-quality feedback about irregularities. The platform was co-developed by OCP and the business community together with the government. For us, this was a discovery.

Tender 52

Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation 52

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 1, 2024

Containers and serverless – Adopt an extensible platform to easily swap AI services as new innovations emerge. This targeted fine-tuning ensures that the model’s outputs are more aligned with the intended use case, leading to higher-quality results and better user experiences.

Evaluation 78

Evaluation Data Efficiency Integration 78

Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It feeds the economy by making it more innovative, resourceful, and socially inclusive. Transparency The government organisation must make the information on the process available to all stakeholders including suppliers, service producers, contractors, and the public. In the UK, this framework consists of eight core principles.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Tender Supplier 52