As part of its joint initiatives with ESA Φ-lab, UNICEF is appointing two researchers to work on a project that forms part of the UN Secretary-General’s Digital Cooperation Roadmap. The project maps current access to electricity and the Internet for schools around the world in support of an ambitious UNICEF target to provide connectivity for every child by 2030.
The Government of Spain, the Catalonia Regional Government, and the City of Barcelona in collaboration with UNICEF and ITU are meeting this week to further develop plans for the establishment a Giga Technology Centre in Barcelona.
Giga’s 1,000 Patchwork Kingdoms shine a spotlight on digital inequality around the world. They have so far raised over US$700,000 to help get schools online. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer a new way for people from beyond the ‘UN bubble’ to have a long-term, interactive relationship with a global initiative. The project is a test case …
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The Government of Sierra Leone, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have been collaborating and seeing progress in accelerating school connectivity and innovating to empower entire communities.
To accelerate our school mapping efforts, we collaborated with Mapbox to create a crowdsourced application to identify schools using satellite imagery.
In collaboration with the Government of Uzbekistan, Giga has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify the most reliable, sustainable solutions to redistribute connectivity from schools to the community.
This session of the Road to Addis Series explored innovative financing models and applications toward connectivity for sustainable development.
This session of the Road to Addis will explore some innovative financing models and their application as well as some good practices and lessons learned in financing connectivity for sustainable development.
BCG joins Giga as a Knowledge Partner, helping develop school connectivity operating models, based on different country typologies, forming a basis for helping countries achieve universal connectivity.
Co-led by UNICEF and ITU, Giga has made progress through 2020 and now forms an Interim Advisory Group (IAG) to steer the initiative toward the next level of governance.