• Innovation | October 12, 2023

    Papua New Guinea: Fostering a supportive and inclusive digital ecosystem

    Papua New Guinea faces significant challenges with the need to digitise financial and governmental systems. The government’s ‘Digital Government Plan’ aims to address inequalities and foster an inclusive governmental and financial ecosystem.

  • Policy and regulation | September 11, 2023

    Vietnam’s National Digital Transformation: Creating a digital society 

    Vietnamese GDP has drastically increased, and poverty has fallen in a single generation. A driving force behind this success has been the central government’s National Digital Transformation plan, comprising six steps to create a digital government and economic structure for the 21st century.

  • Policy and regulation | June 19, 2023

    China’s e-Commerce Law

    The rapid emergence of the Chinese digital economy as the largest e-commerce market in the world has created regulatory burdens regarding subjects such as consumer protection, intellectual property laws, data security, tax collection, and dispute resolution. These issues have previously been addressed by a patchwork of different policies, leaving policy trailing the issues.

  • Innovation | May 16, 2023

    China’s use of the digital economy to lift rural farmers from poverty

    The rural population of China is approximately 43% of the total national population, more than 580 million people. Within this population are most of the 0.6% of Chinese people who are living below the poverty line. Many of them rely on agriculture for their income and as their source of sustenance.

  • Skills | February 6, 2023

    Republic of Korea’s information network villages

    Exploring a South Korean program intended to bridge the digital divide as part of a greater government strategy to shift to a system of e-government.

  • Infrastructure | December 8, 2022

    Difficulties faced in the roll out of Japan’s digital ID system, ‘My Number’

    ‘My Number’ was introduced to increase digitisation and streamline government processes for all residents of Japan. Understanding the challenges encountered during deployment of Japan’s digital identification infrastructure can be instructive.

  • Skills | November 27, 2022

    Cambodia’s creative financial literacy campaigns

    To improve Cambodia’s financial literacy rate, the National Bank of Cambodia launched a ‘Let’s Talk Money’ campaign in 2016. Upon its success, a second campaign, ‘Let’s Talk Money: Little by Little’ was launched in late 2021. The campaigns consisted of drama videos, talkback radio programs, face-to-face training sessions, comic books and educational mobile apps.

  • Policy and regulation | August 11, 2022

    Bangladesh’s ‘test and learn’ approach to effective digital economy regulation

    Bangladesh’s Mobile Financial Services (MFS) regulation has played a critical role in enabling the country’s digital economy to grow and flourish.

  • Policy and regulation | August 9, 2022

    Banking on policy promotion in Malaysia

    Malaysia’s efforts to promote financial inclusion include legislation aimed at elevating the financial wellbeing of households and businesses and advancing digitisation of the finance sector.

  • Skills | August 3, 2022

    Mind Your Ringgit Malaysia

    Mind Your Ringgit is a simulation game focused on building financial resilience in the digital economy with a focus on a variety of themes such as financial scams, digital payments, insurance, investments loans and savings.

  • Innovation | August 2, 2022

    Sun and sandboxes―regulating fintech in the Pacific

    Monetary authorities of the participating Pacific countries established a regulatory sandbox that provides an enabling environment for fintech innovation in the region.

  • Infrastructure | August 1, 2022

    Samoa’s mobile money

    Mobile wallets and digital money transfer products launched by telecommunications companies Vodafone and Digicel have become Samoa’s solution to low-cost payments that serve both the banked and unbanked populations.