Consultancy 10 Months: Device Expert for Meaningful

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Schweiz UNICEF Vollzeit

**Job no**: 575924
**Contract type**: Consultant
**Duty Station**: Geneva
**Level**: Consultancy
**Location**: Switzerland
**Categories**: Innovation

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 2019 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 2021 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that a 10% increase in school connectivity can increase effective years of schooling by 0.6% and increase GDP per capita by 1.1%.

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.

**How can you make a difference?**

Giga seeks a Device Expert for Meaningful Connectivity to join one of the most innovative and impactful initiatives at the United Nations whose aim it is to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. This consultant will map current initiatives and stakeholders involved in providing appropriate devices (tablets, computers, among others) for educational purposes around the globe, establish relations with those initiatives and key industry players, as well as develop a framework to integrate adequate and affordable devices into the schools that are connected.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- **Demand Needs Assessment**: Identify the specific device needs of schools in Giga-connected countries, breaking countries into various groups / clusters according to the assessment of needs, in collaboration with Giga’s County Engagement team.
- **Activities**:

- Consultations with Country Office colleagues on state of play / plans to date in country.
- Review existing programs and initiatives by UNICEF, governments, and other international development organizations related to the provision of devices.
- Identify critical needs and features of devices per group of countries.
- Identify success or failure stories in the provision of devices and integrate these lessons into future work.
- **Supply Landscape Assessment**: Understand the current landscape of the device industry, supply chains, large-scale procurement processes, and opportunities for sourcing affordable devices through the lens of Giga’s activities and in the countries that Giga is currently working with.
- **Activities**:

- Do a quick assessment of the industry and suppliers, key trends on devices for education, and cost drivers.
- Review existing programs and initiatives by organizations such as educational NGOs, philanthropic foundations, tech startups focused on education, and other international development agencies, as well as umbrella groups like GSMA, WEF, PDAA, and UNECA, who are all exploring this area. Understand these organizations’ strategies for the procurement or sourcing of devices.
- Identify key industry players and stakeholders, as well as their own initiatives for the provision of affordable devices for education, with a particular emphasis on those based in Switzerland.
- Identify partnership opportunities for UNICEF.
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