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.
It All Begins With a Map: A Pledge to Map Refugee-Hosting Schools
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.
The Secret Ingredient Behind Kenya’s Educational Transformation
“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.
Online and Optimistic – How the Internet has Brought Hope in Honduras
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.
Scaling Up School Connectivity in Kenya
This case study explores the strategic integration of hard and soft infrastructure in scaling up school connectivity in Kenya, which has attracted new funding.
A Collaborative Push to Connect Every School in Africa
Giga conducted an in-depth market assessment of the school connectivity solutions market in Eastern, Southern and Western African countries, to get a better understanding of the current challenges, barriers, and market shortcomings for expanding the supply of affordable, high-quality, high-speed school connectivity in the continent.