From Vaccines To Bandwidth: How Unicef Uses Procurement To Slash School Internet Costs By 60 Percent Inspired by vaccine market reforms, UNICEF and ITU’s Giga initiative is reshaping the procurement of internet connections for schools, using pooled procurement to cut costs while increasing speed and access.  GENEVA, June 19 (UNICEF) – Giga, the global initiative to connect every school to the internet, is helping governments to cut connectivity costs by up to 60 percent—using strategies from the playbook of Gavi, the vaccine alliance.  Launched in 2000, Gavi dramatically reduced the cost of childhood vaccines in low-income countries by aggregating demand, negotiating long-term agreements, and pushing for more transparency on prices. Its efforts…