Liquid Intelligent Technologies Announces Partnership With UNICEF To Help Bridge The Digital Divide In Africa
Liquid Intelligent Technologies Announces Partnership With UNICEF To Help Bridge The Digital Divide In Africa. Technology startup Liquid Intelligent Technologies has announced that it has partnered with UNICEF in order to help bridge the digital divide in Africa. This partnership aims to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice.
The partnership will initially focus on Kenya but will aim to incorporate other Liquid markets over time, including South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Rwanda. “This partnership with Liquid will allow our Giga team to gain a deeper understanding of the connectivity landscape in Kenya and across Africa,” said Thomas Davin, Director, Office of Innovation at UNICEF in a statement. “That knowledge will help UNICEF to get more schools online, giving children access to the opportunities they need to flourish.”
Liquid Intelligent Technologies is a leading connectivity, innovation and intelligent technology company across 13 countries, primarily in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, that is building a digital future for Africa. The company started out by questioning the way things are done and being single-minded in its determination to improve them. Everything it does is driven by a simple yet powerful belief that everyone in Africa has the right to be connected.
Ben Roberts, Group Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies, said, “The Giga Initiative from UNICEF and ITU echoes Liquid’s sentiment of creating a digitally resilient economy in Kenya and Africa at large. There is no better place to start than our schools that shape the minds of our children, thereby securing our future. Through our expertise in the digital and telecom landscape, we will support UNICEF in its endeavour to map school connectivity data across Kenya by providing real-time figures to measure impact. This initiative also reiterates the vision of our parent company – Cassava Technologies, of creating a digitally connected continent that leaves no African behind.”
