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SPOTLIGHTs

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

Geneva, Switzerland, 1st 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.”

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

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

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Giga teams up with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and Smart Africa to bring affordable internet to schools across Africa

18th 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.

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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.

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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
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