Bridging the digital divide is one of the important and urgent issues of our time that deserves global attention as more than 2.7 billion people worldwide – are still offline and left without access to the Internet. Among them are 1.3 billion children who are missing out on the opportunities that come from being connected. It is on this premise that Giga emanates. Giga is a global UNICEF-ITU initiative to connect every school to the Internet to enable every young person to access information, opportunity, and choices. 

Giga aims to expand connectivity through its focus on four main pillars of work: 1) Map: identifying the locations and connectivity status of every school and determining connectivity gaps.

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