In this interview, Paul Garnett offers his thoughts from a long career dedicated to extending broadband access to unserved communities in the US and emerging markets around the world, currently as founder and CEO of Vernonburg Group and previously as creator of Microsoft’s Airband Initiative, which he led for 12 years.
The Giga Q&A with Paul Garnett Read More »
In the farming community of Villanueva, Honduras, famous for its sugarcane, businesses are planting the seeds of a digital future by paying for the internet connection in a local school. Thanks to their support, students like Samantha, 10, are experiencing online learning for the first time.
Giga created a multilayered infrastructure map that displays school geolocations with infrastructure attributes such as distance to fiber nodes, towers, and mobile coverage.
Supporting Infrastructure Analysis and Cost Scenarios in Benin and Zimbabwe Read More »
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.
It All Begins With a Map: A Pledge to Map Refugee-Hosting Schools Read More »
“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.
Online and Optimistic – How the Internet has Brought Hope in Honduras Read More »
First-grader Nurislam, and fourth-grader Nurzada, walk several kilometers through the scenic mountains of Tian Shan every day on a donkey to attend classes at the Kylych Rysmendiev school, in the village of Lahol, Naryn region.