Discovery of the Giga Connectivity Centre
From Connectivity to Empowering: The Giga Journey
8 December 2025, at 18:00
Join us for an evening reception to explore how the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) — two UN agencies — have united through Giga to support governments in their mission to connect every school in the world to the Internet. This networking cocktail reception marks the closing event of the year-long commemoration of the International Telecommunication Union’s 160th anniversary.
PROGRAM
18:00 Welcome drink
18:30 Opening session with:
- Raymond Loretan, President, Diplomatic Club of Geneva
- Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU
- Alex Wong, Senior Advisor, Strategic Engagement and Special Initiatives & Giga Co-Lead, ITU
18:40 Live connection with a classroom from a connected school in Barbados
18:50 Intervention from Ambassador Matthew Wilson, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the UNOG
18:55 Q&A Session
19:15 Cocktail reception
Event organized in partnership with International Telecommunication Union and Giga.
