All posts tagged "Visa"

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  One step at a time: How three countries approach innovation in government

  Governments around the world are trying to innovate to drive efficiency, deliver better services and meet citizen expectations around speed and ease of use. On a recent Global Government Forum

  • Posted December 11, 2024
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  Small businesses drive economic growth – how governments are using data to help them thrive

  Governments around the world are focused on boosting economic growth to improve quality of life and fund better public services. Small businesses are critical to this, often contributing more than

  • Posted November 27, 2024
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  Reimagining humanitarian aid to meet evolving challenges

  Humanitarian crises are escalating in scale and complexity due to issues such as prolonged conflicts, the intensifying climate crisis and economic instability, leading to forced displacement, food insecurity, natural disasters

  • Posted August 5, 2024
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  Digital benefit payments: Embracing the future with a human touch

  One of the most important roles of governments is to provide benefits payments for their most vulnerable citizens. A recent Global Government Forum webinar with knowledge partner Visa looked at

  • Posted July 31, 2024
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  ‘We know service delays are unacceptable’: Trudeau launches taskforce to quicken Canadian government service delivery

  Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has created a new taskforce focused on quickening delivery of public service after admitting that delays in recent months in areas like the processing of

  • Posted June 28, 2022
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  UK tax agency scouts new payments messaging service

  Payments body Pay.UK has launched the technical specifications for a new WhatsApp-style messaging service that it believes has the potential to help public authorities collect payments. Global Government Forum understands

  • Posted June 4, 2020
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  Addressing challenges through collaboration: the benefits of crown-to-crown payments processing

  The Home Office Payment Processing Service (HOPPS) managed more than 700,000 visa applications a year. The service was experiencing challenges – not only with the sheer volume of applications but

  • Posted April 15, 2020
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  Western sanctions are ‘pushing Russia towards China’

  Western sanctions are pushing Russia to explore deeper financial links with China, Moscow’s deputy finance minister has said. Alexei Moiseev said Russia expected to sign a deal this year linking

  • Posted April 21, 2016
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