{"id":44972,"date":"2021-12-13T05:45:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/israel-contributes-rwf100-million-to-rwanda-s-universal-school-connectivity\/"},"modified":"2021-12-13T05:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:47:37","slug":"israel-contributes-rwf100-million-to-rwanda-s-universal-school-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israel-contributes-rwf100-million-to-rwanda-s-universal-school-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel contributes Rwf100 million to Rwanda\u2019s universal school connectivity ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giga project was launched in 2019 by the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with aim to provide connectivity to every school in the world by 2030. As co-chair of the UN Broadband Commission, Rwanda supported the initiative and, in 2020, was chosen to lead the implementation of Giga in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the funding, the Ambassador of Israel in Rwanda, Dr. Ron Adam, commended the strides made in Rwanda\u2019s education sector over the years, and noted that Israel is pleased to support the country\u2019s ground-breaking goal of universal connectivity in schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation is the foundation of everything, and this goes hand in hand with the quality. In this era, you can\u2019t talk about quality while excluding technology. We believe that this support from Israel will be yet another stepping stone for Rwanda to realize its ambition of universal connectivity in schools and becoming a knowledge-based economy,\u201d he said and added: \u201c Behind every child there is a scientist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNICEF, in the 63 pilot schools of the Giga project, only 29 per cent of required computers and other devices for students and teachers is available, hence the need for more devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to the Israel Embassy in Rwanda for this generous support to Giga connect initiative in Rwanda. This support will enable the purchase of laptops for teachers in schools that are being connected to the internet across the country. The funding also comes to reduce the funding gap and bridge digital divide in schools, which is a barrier to quality learning,\u201d said Julianna Lindsey, UNICEF Country Representative to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40350 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/israel_yahay7f1b-43b0c.jpg\" alt=\"The State of Israel through the Embassy of Israel in Rwanda has disbursed Rwf100 million to purchase computers and other devices for teachers whose schools are being connected to the internet under the Giga project. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The State of Israel through the Embassy of Israel in Rwanda has disbursed Rwf100 million to purchase computers and other devices for teachers whose schools are being connected to the internet under the Giga project (\u201csmart classes&#8221;).}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44972"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44972"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}