Digital IDs – so valuable, so hard to accomplish: global finance summit

Government finance officials from around the world met this summer and, prominent among the many messages to them was: It's overtime to get digital IDs in everyone's hands.

Ahmed Reda Chami, president of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of Morocco, made the point at the Global Government Finance Summit.

Chami said better data will help governments get a more detailed view into "population dynamics, economic trends (and) stakeholders' voices," according to reporting by trade publication Global Government Forum. …

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