Giga

SPOTLIGHTs

The Giga Connectivity Forum Galvanizes Global Efforts to Connect Schools

The forum is Giga’s flagship event, bringing together key government representatives in digital infrastructure and education with experts and partners from international financial institutions, UN agencies and members of the local Swiss ecosystem.

Geneva, 8-10 July

Geneva Becomes Global Hub for School Connectivity with Inauguration of Giga Connectivity Centre

Geneva, 25 June 2025 – Giga, the ITU-UNICEF initiative supporting governments to connect every school to the Internet by 2030, officially inaugurated its Giga Connectivity Centre today in Geneva, Switzerland.

Geneva, 8-10 July (1)

Happy 5th Birthday, Giga!

Five years ago this September, at the Broadband Commission’s Annual Meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, our global movement was launched. Back in 2019, half of humanity was offline, and the world was facing up to the increasingly urgent need to bridge the digital divide.

Web banner Giga Turns Five
HOW GIGA GETS SCHOOLS ONLINE

Map

Giga maps schools and their connectivity levels to help target investment to where is most needed and to measure progress toward increasing Internet access. We have mapped the location of over 2.1 million schools on our open-source platform: maps.giga.global

Finance

Giga works with governments and advises them on building affordable and sustainable country-specific models for finance and delivery, subsidizing market creation costs and incentivizing private sector investment.

Connect

In partnership with industry, and based on the mapping results, Giga advises on the best possible technical solutions to provide schools with connectivity, and countries with safe, secure, reliable, fit-to-purposes infrastructure to support future digital development needs.

Giga works with a range of initiatives in UNICEF, ITU and beyond to ensure that students and teachers can access the devices, skills and content they need to make full use of connectivity.

Giga Partnerships

country hosts
Government of Switzerland
Government of Spain
Partners
with thanks to