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Revenue Assurance in Africa: 5 questions to our Technical Director
How has revenue assurance in African countries evolved in recent years? Africa has important development needs, which explains why revenue mobilization has been high on the African governments’ agendas. However, inexhaustive tax collection and fraud in key economic sectors create…
Achieving financial inclusion: Three musts for governments
Financial inclusion is a critical step towards sustainable, inclusive economic growth. And there is good news: Financial inclusion has increased worldwide, according to data provided in the 2021 edition of…
Restoring digital trust for a thriving digital economy
In an increasingly digitalized environment, digital trust is earned by businesses and institutions that have proved their ability to guarantee the security, reliability, transparency, and privacy of the services they…
Mastering the digital transformation’s tech lingo
Do you know your govtech from your suptech? Your fintech from your regtech? The digital transformation has led to a surge in technological innovation in most sectors of the global…
Capability building in Africa: Why public-private partnerships matter
Capability building in Africa, or skills development, is key to sustainable growth and development. For individuals, it is synonymous with gainful employment and economic empowerment. For governments, it is a driver of improved productivity and governance, and therefore of economic…
Enhancing the benefits of remittances through data technology
Remittances and their benefits for less developed countries are in the spotlight this month. From 7 to 9 June, the UNCDF held a webinar series focusing on the need for…
Regulation is key for economic sustainability and data-driven decision-making
Access to accurate, reliable data is a prerequisite to effective decision-making for governments. Having worked closely with the regulatory bodies of emerging economies over the past two decades, GVG is…
Digital identity: the future of socioeconomic growth in Africa
Over the past two years, the African continent has shown great digital resilience by bringing some services online to comply with pandemic-related regulations. This increasing digitization of administrative, social, and…
Costa Rica: 10 years of continuous telecommunications advancement
In today’s post, we speak to Hannia Vega, Telecommunications Superintendent at SUTEL (Costa Rica) about the sector’s achievements, challenges and opportunities for improvement in the Central American country. Costa Rica’s achievements Over the last decade, Costa Rica has reached important…
“The absence of regulations has fostered the existing illicit flows”
In Africa, the mobile money boom has led to an increase in the number of illicit financial transactions, for want of an appropriate regulatory framework. Madina Adam SERE, senior financial analyst…
“There are several battle fronts to turn a country into a digital nation”
Luis Alberto Powell, Director of Telecommunications for ASEP in Panama gives us an accurate overview of the reality that the country and, more specifically, its telecommunications sector, are experiencing in…
An expert’s perspective on the African remittance market in a pandemic context
Francine Dove, Project Manager at DMA Global Ltd, a company based in the UK and with an office in Ghana, is a specialist in remittances and diaspora affairs. We have…
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Capability building in Africa: Why public-private partnerships matter
Capability building in Africa, or skills development, is key to sustainable growth and development. For individuals, it is synonymous with gainful employment and economic empowerment. For governments, it is a driver of improved productivity and governance, and therefore of economic…
Revenue Assurance in Africa: 5 questions to our Technical Director
How has revenue assurance in African countries evolved in recent years? Africa has important development needs, which explains why revenue mobilization has been high on the African governments’ agendas. However,…
Achieving financial inclusion: Three musts for governments
Financial inclusion is a critical step towards sustainable, inclusive economic growth. And there is good news: Financial inclusion has increased worldwide, according to data provided in the 2021 edition of…
Restoring digital trust for a thriving digital economy
In an increasingly digitalized environment, digital trust is earned by businesses and institutions that have proved their ability to guarantee the security, reliability, transparency, and privacy of the services they…
Mastering the digital transformation’s tech lingo
Do you know your govtech from your suptech? Your fintech from your regtech? The digital transformation has led to a surge in technological innovation in most sectors of the global…
GVG’s M3 solution a winner in Central Banking’s Fintech & Regtech Global Awards 2022
This year, our Mobile Money Monitoring (M3) solution has been publicly acknowledged for the second time. Indeed, in 2021, the organizers of the East Africa Com Awards described it as…
Enhancing the benefits of remittances through data technology
Remittances and their benefits for less developed countries are in the spotlight this month. From 7 to 9 June, the UNCDF held a webinar series focusing on the need for…
Regulation is key for economic sustainability and data-driven decision-making
Access to accurate, reliable data is a prerequisite to effective decision-making for governments. Having worked closely with the regulatory bodies of emerging economies over the past two decades, GVG is…
Regulatory Harmonization in Africa: Three Positive Consequences for the Digital Ecosystem
Africa is a continent rich in diversity and contrast. While this may be considered a strength on certain levels, it can also represent a challenge from a regulatory perspective, against…
UNWTO workshop: Creating meaningful tourism statistics through mobile positioning data
What is mobile positioning data and what can it bring to a country? Big Data has been proven to help governments and businesses make effective decisions, so much so that…
Revenue Assurance in Africa: 5 questions to our Technical Director
Revenue Assurance in Africa: 5 questions to our Technical Director
How has revenue assurance in African countries evolved in recent years? Africa has important development needs, which explains why revenue mobilization has been high on the African governments’ agendas. However,…
Achieving financial inclusion: Three musts for governments
Financial inclusion is a critical step towards sustainable, inclusive economic growth. And there is good news: Financial inclusion has increased worldwide, according to data provided in the 2021 edition of…
Restoring digital trust for a thriving digital economy
In an increasingly digitalized environment, digital trust is earned by businesses and institutions that have proved their ability to guarantee the security, reliability, transparency, and privacy of the services they…
Capability building in Africa: Why public-private partnerships matter
Capability building in Africa: Why public-private partnerships matter
Capability building in Africa, or skills development, is key to sustainable growth and development. For individuals, it is synonymous with gainful employment and economic empowerment. For governments, it is a…
GVG’s M3 solution a winner in Central Banking’s Fintech & Regtech Global Awards 2022
This year, our Mobile Money Monitoring (M3) solution has been publicly acknowledged for the second time. Indeed, in 2021, the organizers of the East Africa Com Awards described it as…
Enhancing the benefits of remittances through data technology
Remittances and their benefits for less developed countries are in the spotlight this month. From 7 to 9 June, the UNCDF held a webinar series focusing on the need for…
Costa Rica: 10 years of continuous telecommunications advancement
Costa Rica: 10 years of continuous telecommunications advancement
In today’s post, we speak to Hannia Vega, Telecommunications Superintendent at SUTEL (Costa Rica) about the sector’s achievements, challenges and opportunities for improvement in the Central American country. Costa Rica’s…
“The absence of regulations has fostered the existing illicit flows”
In Africa, the mobile money boom has led to an increase in the number of illicit financial transactions, for want of an appropriate regulatory framework. Madina Adam SERE, senior financial analyst…
“There are several battle fronts to turn a country into a digital nation”
Luis Alberto Powell, Director of Telecommunications for ASEP in Panama gives us an accurate overview of the reality that the country and, more specifically, its telecommunications sector, are experiencing in…
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Capability building in Africa: Why public-private partnerships matter
Capability building in Africa, or skills development, is key to sustainable growth and development. For individuals, it is synonymous with gainful employment and economic empowerment. For governments, it is a driver of improved productivity and governance, and therefore of economic…
Capability building in Africa: Why public-private partnerships matter
Capability building in Africa, or skills development, is key to sustainable growth and development. For individuals, it is synonymous with gainful employment and economic empowerment. For governments, it is a…
Revenue Assurance in Africa: 5 questions to our Technical Director
How has revenue assurance in African countries evolved in recent years? Africa has important development needs, which explains why revenue mobilization has been high on the African governments’ agendas. However,…
Achieving financial inclusion: Three musts for governments
Financial inclusion is a critical step towards sustainable, inclusive economic growth. And there is good news: Financial inclusion has increased worldwide, according to data provided in the 2021 edition of…
Restoring digital trust for a thriving digital economy
In an increasingly digitalized environment, digital trust is earned by businesses and institutions that have proved their ability to guarantee the security, reliability, transparency, and privacy of the services they…
Mastering the digital transformation’s tech lingo
Do you know your govtech from your suptech? Your fintech from your regtech? The digital transformation has led to a surge in technological innovation in most sectors of the global…
GVG’s M3 solution a winner in Central Banking’s Fintech & Regtech Global Awards 2022
This year, our Mobile Money Monitoring (M3) solution has been publicly acknowledged for the second time. Indeed, in 2021, the organizers of the East Africa Com Awards described it as…
Enhancing the benefits of remittances through data technology
Remittances and their benefits for less developed countries are in the spotlight this month. From 7 to 9 June, the UNCDF held a webinar series focusing on the need for…
Regulation is key for economic sustainability and data-driven decision-making
Access to accurate, reliable data is a prerequisite to effective decision-making for governments. Having worked closely with the regulatory bodies of emerging economies over the past two decades, GVG is…
Regulatory Harmonization in Africa: Three Positive Consequences for the Digital Ecosystem
Africa is a continent rich in diversity and contrast. While this may be considered a strength on certain levels, it can also represent a challenge from a regulatory perspective, against…
