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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A throwback from our Giga Government Technology Exchange Programme this May: We sat down with Abdul Rahim Jalloh from the The Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation of Sierra Leone to get his thoughts on the programme and the key actions he planned to implement upon returning to connect every school in Sierra Leone. 🇸🇱 Watch the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/g-Ch64Wv #GigaGovTechExchange #OpenSource #Technology #ConnectEverySchool
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In an interview at the #GigaConnectivityForum, the Secretary-General of International Telecommunication Union, Doreen Bogdan-Martin said the first-ever event allowed participants to not only share best practices but also their challenges to advance the Giga model to connect every school in the world to the internet by 2030. 🌍 👉 Watch the interview: https://lnkd.in/gx6jeHWB #GCF2024 #Destination2030 #ConnectEverySchool Alex Wong chris fabian
Giga Connectivity Forum 2024 | Interview with Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, ITU
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Giga hat dies direkt geteilt
Giga: Connecting every school in the world to the internet. Previously: built unicef’s innovation unit, innovation fund, crypto fund, & a few tech companies
Know how to communicate inside of UNICEF? How to tell a story outside? Support our growing communications team to add the advocacy power to our messaging and work. based in Geneva, Start as soon as possible.
Love building strategic narratives for advocacy? 🎯 We’re looking for a specialist to help us develop our advocacy strategy and narratives around our mission, and harness the information to empower our internal team! 🚀 👉 Job closes on 27 July: https://lnkd.in/gNCPY3VN #JobVacancy #Comms #Geneva #ConnectEverySchool
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Love building strategic narratives for advocacy? 🎯 We’re looking for a specialist to help us develop our advocacy strategy and narratives around our mission, and harness the information to empower our internal team! 🚀 👉 Job closes on 27 July: https://lnkd.in/gNCPY3VN #JobVacancy #Comms #Geneva #ConnectEverySchool
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Are you into building innovative tech products? 💡 Be part of our team and help us establish and grow one of Giga’s products: the Connectivity Credit Marketplace, a system designed to incentivize companies to provide internet access to every school. 🌍 👉 Apply by 24 July: https://lnkd.in/gneiGiNx #Jobvacancy #TechJobs #Barcelona #ConnectEverySchool
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Giga hat dies direkt geteilt
Giga: Connecting every school in the world to the internet. Previously: built unicef’s innovation unit, innovation fund, crypto fund, & a few tech companies
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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Giga hat dies direkt geteilt
🚀 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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Giga hat dies direkt geteilt
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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