Philstar.com
September 1, 2025 | 12:01am
MANILA, Philippines — One of many highlights of Innovania 2025, Globe’s annual know-how and innovation summit, was the signing of the Memorandum of Settlement (MOA) between the corporate and unconnected.org, a charity establishment. The settlement will facilitate sustainable web connectivity to distant and underserved faculties throughout the Philippines.
The initiative is a part of Globe’s dedication to digital inclusion, making certain that Filipino learners wherever they could be, achieve entry to high quality training supported by dependable connectivity.
Beneath the partnership, hard-to-reach faculties shall be outfitted with satellite-based web providers and important infrastructure to energy digital studying and increase entry to vital on-line authorities providers.
“This mission is a testomony to Globe’s dedication to sustainable connectivity and digital inclusion,” stated Gerhard Tan, senior director and head of know-how technique & improvements at Globe.
“By partnering with unconnected.org, we’re empowering faculties and communities to thrive in an more and more digital world. Connectivity is not only about know-how; it’s about fairness. We consider that bringing the web to those faculties will unlock alternatives and encourage a future the place no scholar is left behind.”
For unconnected.org, the partnership represents a shared mission of digital fairness.
“No digital poverty, that’s the center of this partnership,” stated Engr. Benjz Gerard Sevilla, nation normal supervisor of unconnected.org.
“By leveraging one another’s strengths, we are able to drive significant connectivity to rural faculties and deprived communities, giving college students alternatives that solely connectivity can present. We thank Globe for giving us this platform to succeed in extra lives and champion digital inclusion.”
unconnected.org, a world nonprofit, focuses on connecting communities excluded from the digital economic system by empowering native entrepreneurs to construct and function telecom infrastructure. Its mission instantly enhances Globe’s drive to ship inclusive, sustainable and progressive digital options for Filipinos.
The partnership focuses on rolling out neighborhood networks that may assist bridge vital gaps in each training and financial participation. College students in distant faculties will achieve entry to e-learning platforms, digital instruments, and up to date on-line assets, making certain they aren’t left behind within the international shift towards digital studying. Lecturers, in flip, can enhance their instructing strategies, collaborate with friends, and entry up-to-date content material to counterpoint classroom experiences.
Past the classroom, the initiative extends advantages to whole communities. Dependable web entry opens doorways to livelihood alternatives, digital marketplaces, and public providers, broadening financial prospects and enabling residents to take part extra actively within the digital economic system.
The partnership highlights the transformative energy of multi-stakeholder collaboration. With Globe offering quick community infrastructure and connectivity options, and unconnected.org championing neighborhood empowerment and sustainability, the partnership seeks to create long-term influence on training, fairness and digital inclusion throughout the Philippines.
