UNICEF Giga NFTs to connect schools in developing countries to internet
The popularity of NFTs drives fundraising experiments for UNICEF's Giga initiative to connect more schools around the world to the internet. Developed countries often take for granted the ubiquity of the internet. But the reality is that some 2.9 billion people still don’t have connectivity to the world wide web.Data provided by UNICEF highlights that the majority of this internet-less mass of people reside in undeveloped countries, and children continue to be disadvantaged by the lack of internet connectivity at local schools.A UNICEF-led initiative is tackling this dilemma in a novel way....
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