Giga: (UN)DePIN to connect every school in the world by christopher fabian | Devcon SEA

Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

Giga (a startup built by UNICEF and ITU) has built a long-lasting friendship with the Ethereum community, starting w/ the 2019 Devcon launch of UNICEF's Crypto Fund, to the first Eth staking with the Government of Rwanda, putting schools onchain, and now working on a global Connectivity Credits Marketplace. Blockchain, and particularly Ethereum, is fundamental to scaling connectivity for the 1.8 billion people who aren't online. http://giga.global Speaker(s): christopher fabian Skill level: Beginner Track: Real World Ethereum Keywords: DePIN, Ethereum for Good, Politics Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/