On 26 August 2020, 10:00 - 11:20 (EST), the UN Secretary-General and the two Task Force co-Chairs will be hosting the launch event of the report 'People’s Money: Harnessing Digitalization to Finance a Sustainable Future'.
People’s Money: Harnessing Digitalization to Finance a Sustainable Future, the final report of the UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals, will be launched and released on 26 August 2020.
The report identifies opportunities for digitalization to deliver billions of dollars of financing to tackle problems such as lack of access to capital for small and medium sized enterprises, and for investments in sustainable infrastructure addressing climate change, biodiversity destruction. The report will be launched in New York, by the UN Secretary-General and the two Task Force co-Chairs Achim Steiner, UNDP administrator and Maria Ramos, until recently CEO of ABSA Group.
They will be joined by Task Force members Patrick Njoroge, Governor, Central Bank of Kenya; Natalie Jabangwe, Chief Executive Officer, EcoCash; Eric Xiandong Jing, Executive Chairman, Ant Group; and Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions at the World Bank Group, moderated by Simon Zadek, head of the Task Force Secretariat.