Abbas Albasha
Senior Strategy Consultant CBDC
Giesecke+Devrient
Biography
Former Vice Governor, Vice Chairman of the board of the Central Bank of Yemen, Former Executive Director at the board of Arab Monetary Fund representing six countries (Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Comoros). Doctorate dissertation on CBDC design options.
About the company
Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) is a global security technology group headquartered in Munich. As a trusted partner to customers with the highest demands, G+D secures the essential values of the world with its solutions. The company develops technology with passion and precision in four major playing fields: payment, connectivity, identities and digital infrastructures.
Presentation
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI): a call for CBDC
Transport, water, education – societies rely on public goods. The quality and availability of public infrastructure strategically position the country toward advancement, competitiveness, and higher standards of living for their citizens. With our lives becoming ever more digital, the provisioning of public infrastructure needs to evolve to the digital world with digital payments as one of its critical aspects: - Are CBDCs an indispensable part of the digital public infrastructure? - What does this mean for the design of a CBDC? - Is public-private collaboration the way to success?
Transport, water, education – societies rely on public goods. The quality and availability of public infrastructure strategically position the country toward advancement, competitiveness, and higher standards of living for their citizens. With our lives becoming ever more digital, the provisioning of public infrastructure needs to evolve to the digital world with digital payments as one of its critical aspects: - Are CBDCs an indispensable part of the digital public infrastructure? - What does this mean for the design of a CBDC? - Is public-private collaboration the way to success?
