Global Digital Development: What The Stats Say
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.
Advancing Sustainable Finance Solutions for Digital Infrastructure in Schools
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.
Giga and OECS Renew Their Commitment to Enhance School Connectivity Across Eastern Caribbean
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have officially signed a Joint Declaration to advance and expand work of the Giga initiative across the Eastern Caribbean region.
Giga to Participate at the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town
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.
GTEP Rewind: Botswana Colleagues Share their Reflections from the Pilot Run of Giga’s Government Technology Exchange Programme
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).
A Race Towards #Destination2030
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.
Giga connects millions of young people to the internet – Here’s how it works
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.
Request for Information (RFI): Provision of School Connectivity in Africa
UNICEF is requesting information from internet connectivity companies to accelerate school connectivity in Africa.
Happy 5th Birthday, Giga!
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.
Giga Galvanizes Global Efforts to Accelerate School Connectivity
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 Hits Two Major Milestones with Launch of Giga Maps and the Government Technology Exchange Programme
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 —
Supporting Infrastructure Analysis and Cost Scenarios in Benin and Zimbabwe
Giga created a multilayered infrastructure map that displays school geolocations with infrastructure attributes such as distance to fiber nodes, towers, and mobile coverage.