The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have officially signed a Joint Declaration to advance and expand work of the Giga initiative across the Eastern Caribbean region.
Giga created a multilayered infrastructure map that displays school geolocations with infrastructure attributes such as distance to fiber nodes, towers, and mobile coverage.
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At the close of 2023, Giga made a Mapping Refugee Schools pledge, committing its expertise to help map refugee-hosting schools globally to ensure they are identified and included in national connectivity plans.
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“Life before the internet was really chaotic. It was really bad, and it was something I wouldn’t wish to go back to,” head teacher Peris Gaturi said of the time before her school was connected to the internet.
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The Central American country of Honduras couldn’t be missed on Giga’s live map of school connectivity. The entire country looks red, with almost all of its 16,000+ schools remaining unconnected to the internet. Only 979 schools – or less than 6 per cent of the total – have access to the learning opportunities the internet brings.
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Giga is looking for a vendor (company) to develop an open-source prototype for a “Connectivity Credit Marketplace”, employing a tokenization model to incentivize service providers to extend Internet connectivity to underprivileged communities in emerging markets.
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