The #GigaConnectivityForum ended with resounding support for universal school connectivity to achieve a more equitable and inclusive society. The first-ever event created a strong sense of community and collaboration among the 160 attendees, including delegates from 25 countries.
Giga
Zivilgesellschaftliche und soziale Organisationen
A global UNICEF-ITU initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet.
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Giga is a UNICEF-ITU global initiative to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. Only by working together can we make this happen. Giga welcomes engagement from governments, business, civil society, technology providers, donors, and finance experts.
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https://giga.global/
Externer Link zu Giga
- Branche
- Zivilgesellschaftliche und soziale Organisationen
- Größe
- 11–50 Beschäftigte
- Hauptsitz
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Gegründet
- 2019
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Giga: Connecting every school in the world to the internet. Previously: built unicef’s innovation unit, innovation fund, crypto fund, & a few tech companies (plz DM me on x (fka twitter) for faster response @chrisfabian)
Are you an excellent researcher who also likes shipping product? do you love big, open questions, but love them more when their answer can be a replicable, technological solution? join a team (Giga) with a lot of data, questions, and a need to deploy open source answers globally. based in barcelona
🌍 Two-thirds of children in the world do not have access to the Internet — We’re looking for a Research Lead (Technology) to help us use #AI, #blockchain, and cutting-edge tech to address this challenge. You'll be based in the Giga Technology Center in Barcelona, Spain. Apply by 24 July: https://lnkd.in/g9bF99-V #JobVacancy #TechJobs #ConnectEverySchool
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🌍 Two-thirds of children in the world do not have access to the Internet — We’re looking for a Research Lead (Technology) to help us use #AI, #blockchain, and cutting-edge tech to address this challenge. You'll be based in the Giga Technology Center in Barcelona, Spain. Apply by 24 July: https://lnkd.in/g9bF99-V #JobVacancy #TechJobs #ConnectEverySchool
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🚀 This week our Deputy Secretary General Lauranne Macherel participated to the Giga Connectivity Forum 2024 ! ✨ 💫 Organised by the ITU and UNICEF and supported, in particular by Switzerland 🇨🇭 and Spain 🇪🇸 , the Giga Connectivity Forum brought together key government representatives in digital education and infrastructure, as well as other public and private stakeholders, who worked together to achieve meaningful and sustainable school connectivity in the world. 🗺 💬 Giga International Telecommunication Union and UNICEF aim to connect every school in the world to the internet by 2030 ! 🌐 📚 Thank you Yannick Heiniger #GCF2024 #GigaConnectivityForum #Destination2030
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At the 'Safe Connections' event, we explored how emerging technological trends like #GenAI and extended reality, along with existing and new threats, impact children and young people. 🎥If you missed it, here is the recording: https://lnkd.in/e7ZF5R9P Marija Manojlovic Giga
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🌍 1/3 of classrooms don’t have an internet connection. 🌐 An important intiative led by UNICEF and ITU, Giga aims to #connecteveryschool by 2030. 📶 Embedding digital learning in schools with trained teachers gives children a higher chance of better life outcomes. EIU reports that a 10 per cent increase in school connectivity can raise GDP in a country by 1.1 per cent. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/exTfyrGN International Telecommunication Union UNICEF
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Happening today! 🚀 We’re proud to support the ‘Safe Connections’ event hosted by Safe Online to explore the future of child safety in the digital era. 🗓️ 11 July, 2 pm CET / 8 am EST 🔵 Watch LIVE: https://lnkd.in/e7ZF5R9P
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Achieving universal school connectivity by 2030 is too big of a task to tackle alone. Over 30 countries gathered at The Giga Connectivity Forum this week to bring forth insights and solutions for what is not working and areas where we are not being bold enough. Numerous challenges remain and the pace of progress has been slow. The discussions over the past days brought about a renewed sense of hope, determination and energy to take on in the next period of our work. Many thanks to all who attended for the incredibly fruitful discussions. Thank you also to Ambassador Jürg Lauber and State Councilor Nathalie Fontanet for hosting such a splendid reception. Bettina Junker chris fabian Doreen Bogdan-Martin Alex Wong Cosmas Luckyson ZAVAZAVA, PhD. Dominique Perron Corinne Avakian Jonas Pasquier Hassan Thuillard Nicolas Cuendet #GCF2024 #GigaConnectivityForum #Destination2030
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I’m listening to ITU Secretary General Doreen Bogdan-Martin opening the #GIGAConnectivityForum in Geneva talking about the lost opportunities of children when they don’t have access to quality education and how connectivity can help bridge that gap. This takes me back to Zimbabwe where thanks to Internet Society training a student connected Solusi Primary School. This young man’s dream should come true, and we should all support this. Listen to his story https://lnkd.in/eVVaGXSr Together we can bring the opportunities of the Internet to schools and their communities! International Telecommunication Union UNICEF Giga Nuseir Yassin Charity Ncube Ncube Ntokozo chris fabian Alex Wong Jane R Coffin Ben Matranga Michuki Mwangi Naveed Haq Ms. Esther Mwiyeria Kioni 48percent.org Airbnb Internet Society Foundation
Connecting a Primary School in Zimbabwe
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Giga is building a movement to #ConnectEverySchool. Over the next two days, delegates from 24 countries Giga is supporting will tell us what success looks like and how we can improve our technology and other products to ensure access to information, opportunity and choice #ForEveryChild. Follow the conversation at #GCF2024 and join the movement! 🚀
📢 Giga’s most important event to date is coming soon: the Giga Connectivity Forum, July 8-10 in Geneva. 🛰 For the first time, a majority of Giga’s country partners and stakeholders will meet to advance school connectivity and explore five Giga action areas: Map, Model, Finance, Contract and Capacity Development. Giga, a partnership between the International Telecommunication Union and UNICEF, aims to connect every school in the world to the internet by 2030. 🌍 This event will gather some 200 attendees, with representatives from 24 countries where Giga is playing a part in their connectivity journey. We will share challenges and explore solutions, taking into account each country context to achieve meaningful and sustainable school connectivity for all. 📹 Follow the webcast of the groundbreaking morning session on July 9 (09:00 to 12:35 CEST): https://lnkd.in/gnrMktt7 🔗 Visit our event page: https://lnkd.in/gjcS9baZ #GCF2024 #GigaConnectivityForum #Destination2030
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