Governments

New United Nations Study Maps Top 10 Ways Governments and Companies Can Create Digital Economies

For the first time, new evidence from 25 countries shows how governments and companies can move away from cash, as McKinsey Global Institute reveals a potential $3.7 trillion GDP boost…

Heads of State & Governments Event on Digitizing Payments & Inclusive Finance at UN Summit

Governments Leading the Way: Digitizing Payments and Advancing Inclusive Finance to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Saturday 26 September, 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST, United Nations Head…

Building Inclusive Digital Payments Ecosystems: G20 Guidance Note for Governments

Endorsed by G20 Heads of State and Government, this guidance note supports the implementation of the G20 High-Level Principles for Digital Financial Inclusion in the context of inclusive digital payments ecosystems, reflecting lessons drawn from policy development and implementation initiatives undertaken in several countries.

LEARNING SERIES >> Government ownership and leadership over digitization – critical to driving and scaling up digital payments

Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority

Pioneer governments lead the way on shifting from cash to digital payments

By BTCA Communications Team…

Launching a new toolkit: Digitising payments for businesses, governments and NGOs

The toolkit provides a comprehensive view of scale and nature of Mobile money opportunities; strategic considerations around interoperability and enabling third parties; further providing some insights and best practices around the same.

Here’s how governments can help mobile phones become a humanitarian lifeline

This article outlines ways governments can step in to ensure mobile services help the world’s most vulnerable communities fight the pandemic and access essential support.

Open source in government: creating the conditions for success

Open source software can be a powerful tool in responsibly building digital economies. Public Digitals’s latest research outlining conditions for success for governments looking to adopt the technology.

Governments using digital payments to drive Sustainable Development Goals

The Tanzanian President, Finance Ministers and high level delegates are leading SDG progress by digitizing payments and accelerating financial inclusion.

Governments can fight corruption by joining the digital payment revolution

The trillion-dollar prize: Plugging government revenue leaks with advanced analytics

Governments can capture about 20% of leakages over several years of concentrated effort using digital payment data, alternative data sources, and advanced analytics. Worldwide, that represe…

G2PX: Digitizing government-to-person payments

The G2PX initiative brings expertise across sectors to contribute to the broader agenda of improving government-to-person payments through digitization.

Better Than Cash Alliance Recognized As Example for Effective Development

On April 15-16, 2014 the Better Than Cash Alliance presented at the First High Level Meeting for Effective Development Cooperation in Mexico City, Mexico.

Accelerators to an Inclusive Digital Payments Ecosystem

This paper reviews 25 countries where digitization has had great impact and reveals 10 tangible steps, or “accelerators,” that governments and companies can take to build inclusive digital economies.

Reaching Financial Equality for Women (2021 edition)

A 10-point action plan for governments and businesses to rebuild stronger after COVID-19 by prioritizing women’s digital financial inclusion

LEARNING SERIES >> Institutional capacity-building on digital payments is needed if recommendations are to achieve sustainable national transformation

Building capacity within government agencies that champion digital payments

World Bank Report: Digital payments vital to economic growth

Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps

Inter-American Development Bank becomes first regional development bank to join partnership to advance digital payments

The organization joins a UN-hosted alliance of governments, companies and international organizations to accelerate the move towards digitization of payments