Finance2Connect: Innovative Ways to Finance Connectivity
This session of the Road to Addis Series explored innovative financing models and applications toward connectivity for sustainable development.
Remarks of Doreen Bogdan-Martin, ITU BDT Director, at the Road to Addis – Finance2Connect Webinar on Innovative Ways to Finance Connectivity
This session of the Road to Addis will explore some innovative financing models and their application as well as some good practices and lessons learned in financing connectivity for sustainable development.
Boston Consulting Group joins Giga as a Knowledge Partner
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.
Giga Interim Advisory Group
Co-led by UNICEF and ITU, Giga has made progress through 2020 and now forms an Interim Advisory Group (IAG) to steer the initiative toward the next level of governance.
Connecting the hardest-to-reach schools in Kazakhstan
In collaboration with the Government of Kazakhstan, Giga has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the telecommunications industry to implement innovative technologies and business models to connect some of the 105 schools that remain unconnected or underconnected in the country.
1st Giga Ministerial Roundtable in Africa
Highlighting the progress of Giga activities in countries across Africa and discussing challenges and solutions toward advancing connectivity.
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.
Connecting the Dots: Impact Outlook 2021
Here we present Giga’s work in 2020 and strategic plans for 2021 and beyond for 17 countries.
Giga OECS Webinar: Sharing knowledge on socioeconomic pricing and regulation
Giga conducted a webinar on Socio-Economic Pricing regulation to share lessons from the Costa Rican experience with the “Connected Homes” program and to explore implementation considerations for the OECS region.
Accelerated steps to connect every school in Rwanda
Solution providers are encouraged to apply to provide broadband internet to schools in the Eastern province.
Supporting educational policies with technology
Plan Ceibal was launched in 2007 to ensure that every child aged 6 to 15 attending primary and middle public school in Uruguay has access to a personal computer with free Internet connection at school.
Sierra Leone joins Giga toward “Digitization for All”
Sierra Leone joins Giga to expand school connectivity efforts and explore where innovations, such as digital assets, can play a role in empowering entire communities.