Giga, an initiative of UNICEF and ITU Giga Connectivity Forum 2026

Use cases

Same label, two services. These are the facts the agent works from.

Case A

Student records and exam results

Label: "education data in the cloud"
  • A national education authority keeps grades and final exam results for about 250,000 students. Most of them are minors.
  • About 400 schools enter grades through a web application.
  • Exam results are published once a year on a fixed national date. A failure in that week affects every student.
  • Certificates must stay verifiable for decades.
  • The system exchanges data with the national identity register.

Not known: which data protection law applies, recovery targets, budget.

Case B

AI assistant for teachers

Label: "education data in the cloud"
  • About 30,000 teachers ask an AI assistant to draft lesson plans from the public national curriculum.
  • The assistant runs an open language model and needs GPU servers for it.
  • Use peaks on Sunday evenings and before term starts, and is almost zero in the holidays.
  • Teachers sometimes type student names into their questions.
  • If the assistant is down for a while, teachers use the curriculum documents directly.

Not known: how long questions and answers are kept, budget.