The purpose of this case study is to examine the potential for schools to serve as hubs for connectivity. Schools are anchors for community interaction; they serve not only as a place where learners can connect with each other and with teachers, but also as a destination where people meet and engage in social activity.
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The Government of Spain, the Catalonia Regional Government, and the City of Barcelona in collaboration with UNICEF and ITU are meeting this week to further develop plans for the establishment a Giga Technology Centre in Barcelona.
As Knowledge Partner of Giga, BCG helped further develop school connectivity operating models based on different country typologies, forming a basis for helping countries achieve universal connectivity.
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To accelerate our school mapping efforts, we collaborated with Mapbox to create a crowdsourced application to identify schools using satellite imagery.
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BCG joins Giga as a Knowledge Partner, helping develop school connectivity operating models, based on different country typologies, forming a basis for helping countries achieve universal connectivity.
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In this session of the Road to Addis Series, esteemed panelists explored and reshaped some of the principles and foundations of Partnerships, in order to make them more effective for achieving the SDGs.
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Training a machine learning model to identify schools from satellite imagery of developing countries is a difficult task. UNICEF and Tryolabs partnered to understand how UNICEF’s Machine Learning model was actually performing by employing explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods.
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Dubai Cares, the UAE-based global philanthropic organization, and UNICEF announced today a global partnership, through UNICEF’s flagship global youth initiative Generation Unlimited, to accelerate efforts to provide access to digital connectivity for every young person.
Across recent virtual events, digital connectivity has been high on the agenda. Here are some ways we can work together.
SIMET data is shared with Giga, which aims to map and increase the number of connected schools around the world.