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One in three people around the world still doesn’t have access to the Internet, including 1.3 billion children who can’t get online at home. But many of these children can’t connect at school either, meaning they won’t learn digital skills that are desperately needed in an increasingly digital world. Without them they stand little chance of lifting themselves out of poverty.
A global initiative run by UNICEF and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) aims to connect every single school in the world to the Internet by 2030. But how will this be done? How do you even find every school in the world? Will governments co-operate? These questions and others are answered on this special edition of Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast, by Chris Fabian, co-founder and co-leader of Giga – the initiative to give every young person access to information, opportunities and choice.
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell and the studio expert is Peter Guest.
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More on this week's stories:
Giga: Connecting every school in the world to the internet
https://giga.global/
Chris Fabian, Co-founder, Co-Lead Giga, UNICEF
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hichrisfabian/?originalSubdomain=ch
Salima Bah, Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation, Government of Sierra Leone, West Africa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-bah-564800184/?originalSubdomain=sl
Ben Roberts, Group Chief CTO and Innovation Officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-roberts-9085592/
The Team
Sound editor is Keziah Wenham-Kenyon
Audio is by Callum Swingler
Production Manager is Liz Tuohy
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Editor: Ania Lichtarowicz
Production Manager: Liz Tuohy
Recording and audio editing : Lansons | Team Farner
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Connecting every school in the world to the Internet
One in three people around the world still doesn’t have access to the Internet, including 1.3 billion children who can’t get online at home. But many of these children can’t connect at school either, meaning they won’t learn digital skills that are desperately needed in an increasingly digital world. Without them they stand little chance of lifting themselves out of poverty.
A global initiative run by UNICEF and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) aims to connect every single school in the world to the Internet by 2030. But how will this be done? How do you even find every school in the world? Will governments co-operate? These questions and others are answered on this special edition of Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast, by Chris Fabian, co-founder and co-leader of Giga – the initiative to give every young person access to information, opportunities and choice.
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell and the studio expert is Peter Guest.
For new episodes, subscribe wherever you get your audio.
If you like Somewhere on Earth rate and review it.
More on this week's stories:
Giga: Connecting every school in the world to the internet
https://giga.global/
Chris Fabian, Co-founder, Co-Lead Giga, UNICEF
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hichrisfabian/?originalSubdomain=ch
Salima Bah, Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation, Government of Sierra Leone, West Africa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-bah-564800184/?originalSubdomain=sl
Ben Roberts, Group Chief CTO and Innovation Officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-roberts-9085592/
The Team
Sound editor is Keziah Wenham-Kenyon
Audio is by Callum Swingler
Production Manager is Liz Tuohy
Support the show
Editor: Ania Lichtarowicz
Production Manager: Liz Tuohy
Recording and audio editing : Lansons | Team Farner
For new episodes, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or via this link:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2265960/supporters/new
Follow us on all the socials:
If you like Somewhere on Earth, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts
Contact us by email: [email protected]
Send us a voice note: via WhatsApp: +44 7486 329 484
Find a Story + Make it News = Change the World
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices