Giga Connectivity Forum
June 4 @ 12:00 am - June 11 @ 11:59 pm
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.
This was the mission of the first Giga Connectivity Forum (GCF), which took place in Geneva, July 8-10. Organized by Giga, the ITU-UNICEF initiative to help connect all the schools in the world to the internet by 2030, the event was the first ever to bring together a majority of Giga-supported countries and stakeholders to advance school connectivity — over 240 registered participants, from governments and financial institutions to international experts and representatives of the Swiss ecosystem.