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From Vaccines To Bandwidth: How Unicef Uses Procurement To Slash School Internet Costs By 60 Percent
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…
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FROM THE PANDEMIC TO POLITICS-IS THERE HOPE ON THE HORIZON?
Why the World is Forcing Us to Look at Our Lives in Deeply Different Ways Our country is currently experiencing the dual “winter storms” of the pandemic and the political outcome of our election. Yet, even as the worst of this storm befalls us, we can see a light within this dark cloud. Vaccines have arrived and there is change in leadership. We now have the glimmer of a new year bringing us a new beginning—and a rebirth of hope in our lives. “For many months, we Americans have not allowed ourselves to hope, but now that we have the possibility of it, what will we do with it? Soon…
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