For every child, Connectivity
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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
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Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
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And we never give up.
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About Giga
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Launched in 2019 as a joint initiative between UNICEF and ITU, Giga has set the ambitious goal to connect every school in the world to the internet. Half of the world’s population has no regular access to the Internet. Millions of children leave school without any digital skills, making it much more difficult for them to thrive and contribute to local and integral economies.
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This has created a digital divide between those who are connected and those who are not, a divide that has become even wider during the Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF and ITU have therefore joined forces to create Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and address this new form of inequality.
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Giga focuses on connecting schools so that children and young people have access to information, opportunity, and choice. It also uses schools as anchor points for their surrounding communities: if you connect the school, you can also connect local businesses and services. This creates opportunities for service providers to generate revenue from paying users, making connectivity more sustainable.
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A 2021 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that a 10% increase in school connectivity can increase effective years of schooling by 0.6% and increase GDP per capita by 1.1%.
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Based in Switzerland with an open-source technology centre in Barcelona, Giga not only aims to provide children and young people with access to information but also envisions schools as anchor points to uplift entire communities.
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Giga is building a Connectivity Credits system. Connectivity Credits are envisioned as a fast and efficient mechanism to enable (small) internet service providers to connect schools in underserved areas. ISPs automatically earn Credits every time they connect a school and can redeem these Credits for a variety of incentives, including subsidies, tax reliefs, or infrastructure access - through respective Ministry of Finance or regulatory bodies, subject to individual country determinants.
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The Connectivity Credits system includes many innovative elements which reinvent traditional financing and procurement in order to be ‘fit to size’ for small, local ISPs. These elements are being tested in a number of in-country pilot projects. The learnings from these pilots are integrated into the Connectivity Credits system.
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You can read more about Giga’s work at and by following us on twitter @Gigaglobal
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How can you make a difference?
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Giga seeks a creative, passionate, and self‑motivated UI Designer to expand on, and maintain, the ongoing development of Giga’s Product Suite.
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Giga is in the growing stage of developing a series of tech products as part of a larger product offer/suite. The individual in this position will own Giga’s UI development, leading products from design concept stage, development, to MVP launch and performing data‑driven, iterative improvements.
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As part of Giga’s Design Team, The UI Designer will be working closely with a UX Designer, a Graphic Designer, and a Design Lead (Brand). The Giga Design is a small but multi‑tasking team working in an agile way, developing multiple products simultaneously in an ambitious tech‑startup environment. The team collaborates closely with external developers/vendors for the product design development.
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The UI Designer will also serve to advise on new products, solutions and global trends that will help our products achieve the ambitious goal of connecting every school and every community to the Internet.
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Giga takes large ideas and makes them a reality; so being able to communicate complex and abstract ideas using data‑driven decisions and clear visual, verbal, and written language is crucial. The candidate should exemplify a strong expertise in Agile/Lean practice and interface design for web‑based designs, apps, data information systems, information architecture and systems mapping design.
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Key responsibilities include
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Own and lead the product UI lifecycle, from prototype, MVP launch and ongoing versioned iterations, working closely to UX Designer, Design Lead, and external engineering teams.
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Work closely with the larger Giga Tech Team to continue a healthy evolution and the global scale of current and future Giga products such as Giga Maps, Giga Counts, and NFT and Blockchain products.
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Work and improve on Giga’s curren