The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) will provide assistance from NFTs to help connect schools to the Internet. The NFT sale is expected to support UNICEF’s Giga Initiative.
Digital artist and data scientist Nadieh Bremer’s exhibition “Patchwork Kingdoms” will have used the profits from the NFT launch in January of the new year for children. The exhibition, which is expected to support many other projects including Giga, was inspired by the work of Mary Blair, the architect of “It’s a Small World”. To celebrate UNICEF’s 75th anniversary, the announcement of the 1,000 NFT launch was made on Giga’s official Twitter account:
We are about to launch 1,000 #NFTs to celebrate UNICEF’s 75th anniversary🚀 #UNICEF75
each artwork by @NadiehBremer is based on data from our open-source map. Collectors will form a community helping us connect every school to the internet.
Learn more: https://t.co/G3TYkKbjYH pic.twitter.com/98SFLbhEpI
— Giga (@Gigaconnect) December 10, 2021
Launched in 2019, the Giga Initiative is a worldwide project initiated by UNICEF and the UN International Telecommunication Union to connect every school to the Internet so that children can benefit from web-based information and opportunities.
UNICEF, which has been carrying out various projects with the promise of hope for children for years, launched CryptoFund in 2019, which allows it to buy, hold and distribute cryptocurrency. Since then, he has been actively using Blockchain technology.
With its investments in Blockchain, the UNICEF Innovation Fund also funds early-stage, open-source Web3 projects that have the potential to impact children around the world. In addition, many famous companies also support the institution. Most recently, last April, Huobi Charity Limited, a non-profit affiliated with the famous crypto exchange Huobi Global, donated $1 million in Bitcoin, fiat currency and an additional 7 BTC to CryptoFund to UNICEF.