#CWI20 Fellow Sofie Blakstad contributes to UN Task Force for Digital Finance report

Published on August 31, 2020

Hiveonline founder and 2020 fellow Sofie Blakstad contributed to the UN Secretary-General’s Task Force on Digital Finance on their report “The People’s Money: Harnessing Digitalization to Finance a Sustainable Future”. The findings present the importance of embracing the transformative potential of digital solutions for the creation of a citizen-centric financial system, accelerating the financing of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and enabling access to financial services to unbanked entrepreneurs and SMEs. 

Read the report here.

 

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