Digital-X is a program designed to find, match, and connect ready-to-scale digital solutions with the urgent needs of UNDP, UN partners, and governments.
UNDP mapped over 4,000 digital solutions from around the world. After a panel review with UNDP thematic experts, the Digital X Solutions team selected Red Flash together with nearly 100 featured digital solutions in health, climate, gender, inclusive growth, crisis, and more. UNDP will provide funding for a selected number of projects.
SMARTR Tax is a cloud-based digital platform for the collection of micro taxes and for the formalization of the informal sector. SMARTR aims to increase tax revenue for municipalities and townships, so they can get more resources for local development without dependence on central funds.
Madeleine Taylor presents the ambitions of the Nordic Fund (NGIF) for Africa
Madeleine Taylor has joined Nordic Global Investment Foundation (NGIF) as Strategic Director of Development of infrastructure projects and non-reimbursable financing for the African Continent
Read more here (french)
Red Flash enters the Mastercard Lighthouse MASSIV program
We are happy to announce that we now enter the Mastercard Lighthouse MASSIV program.
Lighthouse MASSIV uses the format of long-term partnerships to scale companies focused on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. By providing teams with competitive incentives and preferential access to partner resources, Lighthouse MASSIV aims to foster partnerships that will touch the lives of one billion people in the next five years. The winner of the program is the team that demonstrates the potential to impact the most people via partnership.
Read more about the program here: https://lnkd.in/dibhEAD
African governments are trying to collect more tax
What is it like being a taxman in Africa? “A lot of sleepless nights,” says Yankuba Darboe, the Gambia’s top revenue official, describing the pressure to meet targets. Politicians across Africa are asking ever more of their tax collectors, with good reason. The biggest hole in public coffers is not money squandered or stolen, but that which is never collected in the first place.
Read more here.
Red Flash meets the minister of budget of the Republic of Guinea
Mr. Ismaël Dioubaté minister of budget of the Republic of Guinea meets Madeleine Taylor from Red Flash
Mr. Ismaël Dioubaté received this Tuesday, August 13, 2019 Mrs. Madeleine Taylor who came to present Smartr Tax to the Minister and to his Cabinet. They talked about what Red Flash can bring in terms of digitization of the informal sector and collection of micro taxes.
Read more here.
Red Flash interviewed by the @LRNTECH1 podcast
Ylva Nicolae Santesson, head of growth at Red Flash, interviewed by the @LRNTECH1 podcast with the theme TECH.4.GOOD.
https://lorn.tech/lorn-pod/405-tech4good-ylva-santesson-empowering-autonomous-governments8120/
Red Flash nominated to the Norrsken Award 2019
Red Flash has been nominated to the Norrsken Award 2019.
Please vote for us at https://norrskenimpactweek.org/organisations/red-flash/
Red Flash featured in African Business Journal-Abj Magazine
Mrs. Aissatou Diallo, Executive Director of Red Flash Senegal and Madeleine Taylor, head of Strategy and Communication, are proud to be featured in the special issue of African Business Journal-Abj Magazine. They talked about their Scandinavian journey and our difficulties as an African woman in the areas where we they living.
A big thank you to m. Daouda Mbaye for this interview.