Staking for Impact: How Blockchain can Work for Refugees
When humanitarian aid meets blockchain infrastructure, funding becomes perpetual — and every staked token becomes a lifeline.
Overview
Overview
Giga is a joint initiative between UNICEF and the International Telecommunication Union with an ambitious mandate: connect every school on Earth to the internet. Operating across dozens of countries, Giga maps school connectivity gaps, mobilises public and private investment, and builds the digital infrastructure required to deliver educational access at scale.
Institutional Adoption
Challenge
Connecting the world's schools demands more than traditional infrastructure thinking. Giga needed to explore whether blockchain technology could support transparent funding flows, decentralised connectivity solutions, and verifiable impact tracking—but lacked a structured environment to engage the right ecosystem partners.
