The Task Force presented an event Digital Finance – a Building Block for Digital Cooperation as part of the UN Global Assembly on 15 September 2020.

It was opened by Achim Steiner, the Administrator of the UNDP, Achim Steiner and the Special Adviser to the Secretary General, Fabrizio Hochschild. 

Panelists were:

H.E. Mr. Robert Rae, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Co-Chair of the Group of Friends on SDG Financing

H.E. Mr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramirez, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations, Co-Chair of the Group of Friends on Digital Technologies

Mr. Chaesub Lee, Director for Standardization for the International Telecommunications Union

Ms. Judith Karl, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Capital Development Fund

Ms. Maiava Atalina Emma Ainuu-Enari, Governor, Central Bank of Samoa