Digital Economy

Creating access and availability to online payment gateways including PayPal, Payoneer, Stripe, Skrill and Netella to make online payment deposit and receipts easier.

Enabling seller account creation for Maldivian youth on the most popular global ecommerce platforms such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Shopee and Lazada, to help traders to sell their products to the global market.

Creating accessibility to global on-demand workforce / freelancing marketplaces, including Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer, Guru and People Hour to help Maldivian youth to monetize their knowledge and skill.

Enabling trading stocks of global companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, IBM, etc. while being in the Maldives and provide access to trade Forex and Crypto currency.

Establishing a centre for research, training and market access in coding, to bring Maldives on par with regional competitors.

Introducing the necessary legislative and regulatory controls to legalise digital cryptocurrency tender and trading in the Maldives.

Promoting research and development into launching blockchain technology application in Maldives.

Incentivising big technology companies to introduce value-added manufacturing in the Maldives.

Introducing a national scheme titled “Women in Technology” for the advancement of women professionals in information technology and digitalisation, including investment promotion, higher education and training programmes, entrepreneurship incentives and IT education curriculum improvement in secondary school.

Using artificial intelligence to accelerate productivity in public sector services to curtail processing, waiting times and superfluous costs.

Revising the Government policy in order to reduce the fees incorporated with digital payment.

One front office (counter service) for all government offices and establishing a one-stop call centre for all government services with a feedback mechanism.

Digitalising all communications in government, including establishing programmes, software and interfaces to migrate to a ‘paperless’ government.

Establishing a Digital National Archive by law, and ensuring that all government communications are archived diligently and comprehensively.

Establishing a digital platform to incorporate every street of every city in the country, to improve public service delivery.

Migrate to managing the traffic flow of Male' City with the aid of digital tools and artificial intelligence.