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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Bridging the Digital Divide One Image at a Time: Launch of the Giga Photo Festival

Geneva, Switzerland, 1^st April 2025 – Launching at Olivier Varenne Art Moderne & Contemporain, with Centre de la Photographie Genève, Giga is launching an open call for photographs and stories related to “The Joy of Connection.”

Media Advisory: Launch of the Giga Photo Contest on 1st April 2025

Geneva, Switzerland, 25^th March 2025 — Launch of the Giga Photo Contest on 1^st April 2025: An international photography festival in Geneva celebrating the impact of being connected.

Giga Teams Up with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and Smart Africa to Bring Affordable Internet to Schools across Africa

18^th March 2025 — Giga has signed agreements with both Smart Africa and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to help close the digital divide in education for the benefit of school children across Africa.

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.

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.