Giga and Mapbox come together to map schools across the globe
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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Scaling AI to map every school on the planet
Development Seed and UNICEF use AI to identify unmapped schools across Asia, Africa, and South America, building on our success mapping 23,100 unmapped schools in 8 countries.
Using AI to connect every school to the internet
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.
International agreement between NIC.br and UNICEF contributes to measure the connectivity of schools
SIMET data is shared with Giga, which aims to map and increase the number of connected schools around the world.
Connected Education Internet Measurement System
The project aims to support the universalization of high-speed Internet access and encourage the pedagogical use of digital technologies in basic education policy.
Ericsson and UNICEF launch global partnership to map school internet connectivity
Three-year initiative to identify connectivity gaps in 35 countries is a critical first step in connecting every school to the internet