ITU creates new Focus Group to investigate digital currency including digital fiat currency
ITU has created a new Focus Group to investigate the emerging questions of how best to standardize and regulate the interoperability and security aspects of digital fiat currency. Titled the ‘ITU-T Focus Group on Digital Currency including Digital Fiat Currency’,…
19 April, Washington DC, US: Workshop to plan next phase of global collaboration in digital financial services
An upcoming workshop in Washington DC, US, 19 April, will present the findings of the ITU Focus Group on Digital Financial Services and discuss the next phase of global collaboration aimed at stimulating the rollout of digital financial services (DFS)….
Press Release: ITU accelerates study of smart-city data management
Open group to identify standardization demands of data-driven smart cities Geneva, 30 March 2017 – ITU has established a new Focus Group to research data processing and management in the context of smart cities. The group is open to participation…
Press Release: ITU Publishes Policy Recommendations on Digital Financial Services
Two-year consultation programme concludes with publication of 85 policy recommendations. New global initiative to be launched in April 2017. Geneva, 9 March 2017 – After two years of extensive consultation, the ITU Focus Group on Digital Financial Services (DFS) has…
eCurrency joins ITU to drive international acceptance of digital fiat currency
eCurrency has become a member of ITU’s standardization arm, ITU-T, to influence the development of the international standards to provide the technical underpinnings of digital fiat currency. Digital fiat currency authorized and issued by a country’s Central Bank – recognized…
Learn more about ITU’s work to expand digital financial inclusion (+VIDEO)
The study of the drivers of digital financial inclusion initiated by the ITU Focus Group on Digital Financial Services (FG DFS) has led ITU to partner with the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in establishing a…
