📢 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
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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🌐 The Giga Connectivity Forum is happening NOW! Watch the livestream of the morning session focused on best practices, challenges and opportunities for enhancing school connectivity: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gnrMktt7 #GCF2024 #GigaConnectivityForum #Destination2030
📢 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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The Giga Connectivity Forum will start in two hours! 🚀 There will be plenty of ideas and inspiration as country delegations, international experts and partners focus on school connectivity over the next two days. Follow the webcast: https://lnkd.in/gnrMktt7 #GCF2024 #GigaConnectivityForum #Destination2030
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Giga hat dies direkt geteilt
I will be joining the Giga Connectivity Forum, an important gathering of government representatives and high-level experts focused on achieving universal school connectivity. Looking forward to connecting with country partners and stakeholders to explore solutions to increase regional collaboration on digital education and infrastructure to accelerate the global impact of Giga. #GCF2024 #GigaConnectivityForum #Destination2030
📢 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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Preparations are in high gear for the first Giga Connectivity Forum, July 8-10, as delegates from 25 countries and stakeholders converge on Geneva to make urgent progress towards universal school connectivity. Join the webcast tomorrow at 9 AM CEST: https://lnkd.in/gjcS9baZ #GCF2024 #GigaConnectivityForum #Destination2030 International Telecommunication Union UNICEF Innovation Alex Wong chris fabian
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Giga hat dies direkt geteilt
As tech advances at breakneck pace, connecting all schools to digital resources is crucial. Giga Connectivity Forum set to chart a course for universal school connectivity <- tune in live from ITU 09:00 CEST, 9 July! #ConnectEverySchool #destination2030
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Giga hat dies direkt geteilt
Strategic Partnerships, Responsible Innovation, Technology Diplomacy ¦ Connecting the dots between Silicon Valley and Geneva
A big week ahead with the inaugural Giga #Connectivity #Forum hosted by International Telecommunication Union and UNICEF. The forum brings together for the first time #ministries of education, telecommunications and regulators, alongside Giga #partners and representatives from #International #Geneva to further accelerate efforts to connect all #schools to the internet by 2030. Connecting schools of the world is not only a #technical #challenge. It has to do with enhancing #collaboration, #knowledge exchange and #community building. I look forward to an engaging event! PS If you are in #Geneva working on internet/digital policy issues, we are hosting an informal happy hour with Konstantinos Komaitis, PhD and the Atlantic Council's Democracy and Tech Initiative this Wednesday evening. PM me to get your invite.
📢 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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Today we connected with Geneva's blockchain community to gather insights that will help us build a connectivity credits marketplace. This scheme is designed to incentivize ISPs for connecting schools FAST and with the traceability of the blockchain. We thank everyone who joined us this afternoon. #ConnectivityCreditsMarketplace #Blockchain #ConnectEverySchool
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🌟 Explore the future of child safety online with us at "Safe Connections" event on July 11, 2024, in Geneva! Hosted by Safe Online alongside Giga, this event will feature thought-provoking discussions and innovative solutions to protect children in the digital world. Join us and make a difference! Watch this space. #SafeOnline
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The Giga Technology Centre in Barcelona hosted a visit from UN Women to learn more about how Giga works to promote digital inclusivity, empowering educational opportunities for girls and women. Two representatives from the UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean — Maria Noel Vaeza, Regional Director, and Giulia Bortolotti, Political Participation and Governance Specialist, emphasized the importance of education to help advance gender equality in Latin America — socially, economically and politically. #Connectivity #DigitalInclusion #LeaveNoOneBehind
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