– Connecting schools, a good point for Geneva
The Giga initiative, which is part of the actions of International Geneva, aims to make digital knowledge accessible to 1.3 billion schoolchildren around the world.
Published today at 5:33 p.m.
It seems a long time ago when offering a dictionary to a student was a guarantee of success. The world has changed. Today it is about connecting all the schools in the world to this gigantic world of knowledge that is the Internet. Giga is precisely the name of the initiative of Unicef and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and their private partners. It aims to reduce this divide which is also digital between the North and the South.
First challenge: draw a school map of the world. Because, surprise, only 2 million out of probably some 7 million schools are flashing on the map. Since its creation in 2019, Giga has managed to connect 2.4 million students: a very encouraging result.
A potential for progress of humanity
The Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, must be delighted, he who considered the “guarantee of universal and affordable access to the internet for all”, “a strong potential to stimulate the progress of humanity” . The objective is also included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Two thousand and thirty is precisely the deadline that Giga has set itself to give access to the Web to 1.3 billion children.
For the international Geneva of the future, this is also a good point. With the ITU headquarters here and this team whose offices have naturally opened here and in Barcelona, the Geneva Internet Platform adds one more cluster to its digital portfolio.
The turning point came at the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva. With a clear objective: to get international Geneva on the digital train. By positioning itself on the governance of the Internet, its ethics, its technological development and digital education, International Geneva is taking good insurance for the future.
Olivier Bot has been deputy editor-in-chief since 2017, head of the World section between 2011 and 2017. Alexandre de Varennes Press Prize. Author of “Search and investigate with the internet” at Presses universitaire de Grenoble.More informations
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