Global internet connectivity saw steady but uneven progress in 2024, according to the latest edition of “Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2024,” an annual compendium of the most important ICT indicators gathered by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency for digital technology.
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Connecting schools in some of the world’s most remote communities means facing a range of obstacles: a lack of digital infrastructure, unreliable electricity, challenging terrain and high costs, among others.
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Next week, Giga is participating in the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town from November 12 to 14. Giga will be represented across a diverse range of talks and panels throughout the festival, which focuses on how tech integration is delivering real-world impact through enterprise excellence and socioeconomic development.
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In this special conversation, our Giga Botswana Programme Officer, Kudzani Nthekela, caught up with IT Principal Technical Officer Boitshwarelo V. Golekanye, and IT Technical Officer Moatlhodi Anderson Modikele – two Giga supporters from the Department of ICT and Media Services (ICTMS), of Botswana’s Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MESD).
Through its goal of connecting all schools to the internet by 2030, Giga seeks to help equip children and young people with the skills to flourish in today’s increasingly digital economy. In its estimates, the World Bank expects 60% of future jobs will require digital skills.
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Giga is making great strides in closing the digital divide. Since 2019, Giga, a partnership between UNICEF and ITU to connect all schools to the internet, has successfully helped connect more than 14,500 schools and nearly 7.8 million young people to the internet.
Giga connects millions of young people to the internet – Here’s how it works Read More »
UNICEF is requesting information from internet connectivity companies to accelerate school connectivity in Africa.
Request for Information (RFI): Provision of School Connectivity in Africa Read More »
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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With some three million schools in the world still unconnected to the internet, roughly half of the estimated total, the huge task of bringing online learning into classrooms requires another kind of connectivity: the linkup of multistakeholder and multifaceted approaches on a global scale to close the digital divide.
Giga Galvanizes Global Efforts to Accelerate School Connectivity Read More »
It’s official: Giga has launched a potent new tool in its quest to connect every school in the world to the internet by 2030 — Giga Maps. A new iteration