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AFSCME Council 3 workers drove in a caravan recently in an appeal to the Board of Public Works for safer workplaces during the pandemic. (Courtesy Hannah Gaskill/Maryland Matters) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The state’s largest state worker union announced the deaths of three more of its members from COVID-19 Friday, including two officers from the Department of P...

Was 2020 a watershed for public sector use of algorithms? Last year saw public protests about the use of predictive analytics in decision making. As the technology becomes more widely used in many public services, Sam Trendall asks experts about the implications for government, the law – and the citizens affected A protest about the use o algorithms in exam results. Photo: PA If government did not know it has an algorithm problem, it certainly does now. “There is a clear, and understandable...

Chris Pastrick | Tribune-Review   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Westmoreland County added 213 new covid-19 cases over the past two days, according to a report Monday from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The two-day total — from cases added Sunday and Monday — were just one less than last week’s report (214). It’s the lowest Sunday-Monday tally since Nov. 8-9, when the county saw 199 new case...

Light Every Night – New nighttime light data set and tools for development Illustration of a satellite view of Planet Earth. ©Rakchai Duangdee/Shutterstock The power was out again. Sitting in a darkened room in western Senegal, the man talked happily about how the arrival of electricity a decade ago had transformed life in the village of Gaouane. But becoming accustomed to reliable electricity had an unexpected downside: “Now when the power goes out, it feels even darker than before we had...

Over the last several months the City of Winnipeg has taken a step forward in openness and transparency with a new digital voting system, but a democracy…

Manager, Development Data Group, The World Bank Group Umar Serajuddin is a Manager in the World Bank’s Development Data Group (Indicators and Data Services Unit). He leads the Bank’s Open Data initiative and oversees the management of the World Development Indicators. He manages the teams that publish some of World Bank’s most prominent global public goods including the global poverty numbers (PovcalNet), the World Integrated Trade Solutions (WITS), the Microdata Library, and Open Data C...

Object Management Group Announces Kaiko to Expand Financial Instruments Global Identifier® (FIGI®) Standard for Crypto Assets Share Article https://www.omg.org/ BOSTON (PRWEB) January 20, 2021 Financial Instruments Global Identifier® (FIGI®) is an open standard for the issuance of unique identifiers that can be assigned to financial instruments including common stock, options, derivatives, futures, corporate and government bon...

UK fraud agency deploys ArcGIS dashboard for data sharing The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau says it has achieved improved transparency with the public, as well as saving 3,500 staff hours and £100,000 Share this item with your network: By Published: 19 Jan 2021 12:00 The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) has made a great leap forward in transparency, as well as saving more than 3,500 staff hours and around £100,000 in the 10 months since it deployed a data-sharing dashboard ...

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Garlands for GMD, NNPC, Mele Kyari at 56 On By Udeme Akpan, Energy Editor With the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, and lockdown, economic activities contracted significantly, leading to low demand for crude oil and dwindling prices, thus putting pressure on oil and gas companies and other stakeholders to put on their thinking caps, required to drive operations. Take the Mallam Mele Kyari-led Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, which represents the Federal Government in the Joi...