Giga – Connect every school to the Internet

Giga is a UNICEF-ITU initiative to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice.

Giga maps schools’ Internet access in real time, creates models for innovative financing, and supports governments contracting for connectivity.

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Map

Giga maps schools and their connectivity levels, creating a real-time display of access and need.

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Finance

Giga is mobilizing $5 billion to accelerate the delivery of critical infrastructure and close the digital divide.

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Connect

Giga helps governments design the regulatory frameworks and competitive procurement processes needed to get schools online in a sustainable, equitable and affordable manner.

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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.

Giga Galvanizes Global Efforts to Accelerate School Connectivity

Taking place from 8-10 July at the ITU headquarters in Geneva, the Giga Connectivity Forum brings together a majority of Giga’s country partners and stakeholders to advance school connectivity — over 240 registered participants, from governments and financial institutions to international experts and representatives of the Swiss ecosystem.

Giga Maps: Charting the Future of School Connectivity

Celebrating Giga Maps launch: our live open source map of global school connectivity and a roadmap for turning every red dot to green by 2030. More than a tool for viewing the world, it’s a foundation for changing it. Why not discover it for yourself?

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.