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.
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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.
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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 — Giga Maps. A new iteration of the former Project Connect, this live open-source map allows governments to geolocate schools and measure their real-time connectivity status. A partnership between the United
This case study explores the strategic integration of hard and soft infrastructure in scaling up school connectivity in Kenya, which has attracted new funding.
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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.
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With the goal of connecting every school in the world to the Internet by 2030, Giga’s mission starts with mapping school locations. On March 1, Giga held an event to put itself on the map — Giga Day, a gathering to kick off the Giga Technology Centre in Barcelona, now fully operational after a year of preparation, thanks to the generous support of the Government of Spain, Regional Government of Catalonia and the City of Barcelona.
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