Madeleine Taylor with with Tomba Trawally (Liberia).
The company of Madeleine Taylor, our head of strategy and communication, was awarded "Best Diaspora Startup of the year" given by African Builders Economy (9e Edition) with Tomba Trawally (Liberia). Congratulations Madeleine!
Assatou Diallo Fall, CEO Redflash Senegal FOTO: Nanny Ålander
Last Friday we met Aissatou Diallo Fall, who is CEO of Redflash in Senegal. Redflash is a Swedish company that works to digitize the informal sector in Senegal. read more here (Swedish article).
We had a great meeting with the IFC - International Finance Corporation, the sister organization of The World Bank, and the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries. Discussing the digitization of the informal sector and the great opportunities that lie ahead.
Moving into the Norrsken House. Ylva Nicolae Santesson will take a seat. Norrsken House is a creative cluster for more than 300 entrepreneurs in Stockholm solving some of the biggest challenges of our time.
Meeting Honorable Patrick Chinamasa, Minister of Finance and Economic Development of Zimbabwe. Talking about digitizing the informal sector and digital tax collection. Zimbabwe has a population of 18 million people, most of them in the informal sector.
In 2017, 80% of all money transactions were electronic transactions, while cash just accounted for 20% of transactions. A big challenge, big opportunity!
Speaking at the #africainnovationnetwork #kickoff seminar in Stockholm about digitizing the #informaleconomy in Africa. #redflash #Informalsector #EmergingAfrica
Red Flash proposes a project to optimize the collection of taxes to the Gabonese government, read more here.
