Week Ahead at the UN

EU Has 350 Million Euros Fund for Cities, Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on Hate Speech Presents Report at the GA in New York, ITU and UNICEF Reach a Milestone: 1 M Schools Mapped-out

$5 Billion bond proposal by UNICEF and ITU to finance connectivity and map out schools in the Global South

A $5 Billion Bond proposed by UNICEF and ITU will kick-start the mixed finance layers necessary for delivering connectivity to schools in the Global South. Giga has already reached a milestone mapping-out schools on Project Connect. 

One million schools have been identified as potential partners of Giga in the last couple of weeks.

To find out more about financing these ambitious mega projects, that will require cooperation from the private sector, governments, UNESCO and other UN agencies, we spoke with Alex Wong, of the International Telecommunication Union, and Maikel Wilms, Partner and Director at the Boston Consulting Group. Listen here.

Watch below.