Webinars
Global Government Forum and its sister publication Global Government Fintech runs regular webinars attracting public servants from around the world, with some aimed at top-level civil servants and others at a wider public sector audience.
Global Government Fintech webinar will ask:
What are governments doing to stay alert to the possibilities of fintech?
How are governments changing their processes to make it easier to work with fintechs?
What barriers exist to governments procuring fintech solutions and how can these be overcome?
This Global Government Forum/Global Government Fintech webinar discussed: What were the greatest challenges faced by small businesses as the pandemic continued? How have public and private sectors collaborated to drive economic resilience and digitisation among small business during the pandemic? How can governments best help small businesses understand and plan for the world beyond COVID-19?
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At this Global Government Forum/Global Government Fintech webinar, we discussed: the challenges faced by the tourism industry; the areas in which public and private sector collaboration can mitigate the impact of the pandemic; and how governments can harness technology to accelerate recovery.
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This Global Government Forum/Global Government Fintech webinar, supported by our knowledge partner Mastercard, convened representatives of governments to discuss how increasingly digital ways of working can help societies and economies to rebuild, reset and recover.
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Most central banks are researching or experimenting with central bank digital currencies (CBDC) - an increasingly hot topic across the globe. With central banks collectively representing one fifth of the world’s population likely to launch retail CBDCs in the next three years (according to BIS), this webinar – supported by our knowledge partner Amazon Web Services – examined the different technological solutions that will deliver CBDCs.
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At this Global Government Forum webinar, experts from national governments and the private sector explored the issues around transforming and digitising tax systems – identifying the main challenges and discussing the policies, capabilities and systems required to overcome them.
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Governments in the developing world are increasingly turning to fintech solutions to help improve levels of financial inclusion. Goals range from reaching the ‘unbanked’ to achieving gender equality in financial services. Fintech solutions include encouraging the use of smart-phones for mobile payments, including the distribution of government payments, and digitising transactions more broadly.
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The UK government’s procurement agency, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), said in March 2021 that it was looking to ‘bring fintech to the fore’ as part of a newly created framework of ‘debt resolution’ providers (a ‘Debt Resolution Services’ supplier roster that all UK public sector bodies will be able to use to source specialist companies).
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This webinar with Mastercard looked at how government can make the process of participating in public procurement easier for SMEs, and support this vital sector of the economy.
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The UN Climate Change Conference (1 Nov-12 Nov 2021) brought new ambition and targets to the increasingly recognised and urgent challenge of climate change. In this webinar we explored the growth in ‘green fintech’ solutions and asked how government policies can help encourage this growing sector. Examples in the UK have included the Financial Conduct Authority’s first ‘Green Fintech Challenge’ (in 2019) while the Department for International Trade run a UK ESG and Green FinTech mission to the US from 20-30 September 2021.
