CONSULTANCY 12 MONTHS: BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPER, BLOCKCHAIN (GIGA), BARCELONA, SPAIN AT SPAIN

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.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, Connectivity  UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children.
We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF.
We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.
About Giga Launched in 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 global economies.
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.
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.
A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that a 10% increase in school connectivity can increase effective years of schooling by 0.
% and increase GDP per capita by 1.
%.
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.
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.
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.
You can read more about Giga’s work at https://giga.
lobal/ and by following us on twitter @Gigaglobal How can you make a difference?  Giga is seeking a blockchain developer who can work with a diverse, global, and interdisciplinary team to help us build and then scale tools and products that support the successful, on-the-ground implementation of the Giga project.
Giga team is scattered across the world, but our blockchain team is mainly working from different locations in Europe.
Key responsibilities include: