That's a wrap for #TEDConf2024 !
Quality, availability, interoperability and readability of have been the leitmotifs during this 2-day conference looking at the 'superpowers' of public procurement data.
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Where are we today with European #PublicProcurement data and where could we go with it tomorrow?
Join Kerstin Jorna with Hilde Hardeman and other speakers at #TEDConf2024 on 29 & 30 April as they answer these questions.
More info + registration: europa.eu/!GfTKgM
Delighted to host #TEDConf2024 today and tomorrow in Brussels with Kerstin Jorna Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs. Looking forward to speaking about the ‘superpowers’ of #PublicProcurement data, through transparency and #AI with specialists from Europe and beyond. europa.eu/!D6W8DW
Interesting empirical insights from Tunde Tatrai and colleagues on single-bid procurement based on TED (ideas.repec.org/a/kap/porgrv/v…).
Clearly shows there is no single policy intervention that would work across the EU #TEDConf2024
First image of a robot appeared in #TEDConf2024
Other than anthropomorphisation, interesting to see how robotic process automation is being deployed in Finland to try make it more difficult or impossible for humans to input wrong information
Great insights by Karolis Granickas Open Contracting Partnership on the different things that can (and not) be done on the basis of eForms as data architecture in Europe, and why #TEDConf2024
Belgian implementation of eForms clearly shows significant difficulties to develop and implement additional or differential mandatory data fields to tailor eForms beyond European minimum #TEDConf2024
.Johannes Hahn at #TEDConf2024 : ‘14% of the EU's GDP, €800 billion
worth of calls for tender are published annually on Tenders Electronic Daily, (TED). We must ensure that this money, public money, taxpayers’ money is managed in the most efficient and transparent way.
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These “Portuguese” challenges seem to me to be quite representative of what’s undermining eForm implementation across the EU #TEDConf2024 Moving past 20/80 visibility will be hard with extensive manual input into procurement records ...
David Dowey opens this morning's session at #TEDConf2024 on linking data for transparency for #PublicProcurement with an expert panel.
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And now we're off with our second session at #TEDConf2024 opened by Marc Wilhelm Küster. It's a about harnessing #AI in #PublicProcurement for fostering transparency.
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Next up is Anikó Gerencsér from EU Publications Office. She describes the importance of 'reference data' that define the permissible values for use in a specific field for example as metadata.
See more info:
op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-voca…
op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-voca…
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We are getting excited to meet at #TEDConf2024 the winning teams of our first-ever #TEDAmbassadorAward .
We created the award to discover and reward the most outstanding and promising research in #PublicProcurement .
Discover more:
europa.eu/!cKGV3F
Johannes Hahn Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs
Luca Martinelli Luca Martinelli from EU Publications Office kicks off the afternoon transparency session on examples of data availability and extracting knowledge from data.
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What are the effects of disclosing more procurement information? -- Hmm there is something missing. Wait. Oh, yes, collusion risks! The question is not what data needs publishing, but rather which data needs capturing and giving to whom #TEDConf2024
Interesting highlights of Oct 2023 report on existing procurement registers, as well as some hints on how EU Member States plan to deploy AI in relation to procurement data, by Isabel da Rosa #TEDConf2024
Report: ted.europa.eu/documents/d/te…
#TEDConf2024 #publicprocurement #data #superpowers by European Commission and EU Publications Office
New insights, a loads of new contacts and great discussions. Particularly happy to meet my academic colleagues Désirée Klingler @asanchezgraells.bsky.social Tunde Tatrai etc.
