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.
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.