All posts tagged "Blockchain"

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  Fraud fighters: public authorities look to fuse technology with data to battle criminals

  Government agencies and law enforcement bodies are looking to combine the latest technology with digital data to combat fraud. Ian Hall reports on a Global Government Fintech webinar exploring the

  • Posted December 3, 2023
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  Blockchain bonds: digital issuance breakthroughs build buzz

  A growing number of public authorities are exploring the issuance of bonds using blockchain technology. Fintech experts joined a webinar to discuss this emerging field Blockchain – a decentralised shared

  • Posted April 30, 2023
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  Ireland’s financial services minister to speak at Global Government Fintech Lab 2023

  Ireland’s minister of state with responsibility for financial services is to speak at the Global Government Fintech Lab 2023, being hosted in Dublin on Thursday 18 May. Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

  • Posted April 10, 2023
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  Finding your identity: how three governments are developing digital ID

  Digital ID is an essential building block for rapid progress on transforming public services – but only a handful of governments have launched effective, popular systems. At the Global Government

  • Posted March 23, 2023
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  New US open government strategy; Turkey to use blockchain to verify service users: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. White House releases action plan on open government The Biden administration has released plans

  • Posted January 5, 2023
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  Estonia launches research into digital currency

  Estonia has kicked off research into the suitability of its e-government technology for operating a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The country’s central bank, Eesti Pank, has launched what it

  • Posted October 8, 2020
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  Digital finance crucial to achieving sustainable development goals, says UN

  Unleashing the potential of digital finance could have a transformational impact on sustainable development, according to a report from a taskforce convened by the United Nations’ secretary-general. ‘People’s Money: Harnessing

  • Posted September 11, 2020
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  The data-fuelled race to defeat COVID

  Around the world, governments are racing against COVID-19 – attempting to get a step ahead of the virus as it harms people’s health and livelihoods. At a GGF webinar, panellists

  • Posted August 17, 2020
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  Saudi Arabia signs off on Artificial Intelligence policy

  King Salman Bin Abdulaziz has approved Saudi Arabia’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy, which is expected to contribute an estimated 500 billion riyals (US$133 billion) to gross domestic product (GDP) by

  • Posted August 13, 2020
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  Doing good with data: an interview with the Development Bank of Latin America’s Carlos Santiso

  Dr Carlos Santiso is no stranger to crisis response, having spent 25 years promoting democracy, strengthening governance and fighting corruption in emerging economies and fragile states. The scale of the

  • Posted July 10, 2020
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