ISPs | Share School Connectivity Data

Contribute to shaping the future of school connectivity

We invite Internet Service Providers to play a part in Giga’s journey to create a live map of every school in the world and their connectivity status.

Share your school connectivity data and help us connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice.  

Leave us your details if you are interested in joining the Giga journey.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why does my network data matter?

Data is essential in bridging the school connectivity divide. Connectivity data offers a unique insight to understanding connectivity needs, opportunities and challenges, and this in turn supports more efficient and targeted public and private internet roll-out.

Why should I share my data?

In sharing your ISP data and knowledge you will be:

Contributing to addressing the technical and social challenge of defining a fair, robust and transparent way to display school connectivity

Recognized through the displaying of your ISP name and/or logo on the Giga ISPs website

Contributing to a global UNICEF – ITU initiative to connect every school to the internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice

What information about my ISP will be made public?

How will Giga use, store and protect my network data?

What methods and tools does Giga use for data sharing?

We want to make the sharing experience as easy as possible. We also want to maintain the integrity of your data. While Giga is open to exploring different ways in which you can share your school connectivity data, Giga is already using APIs successfully. APIs offers seamless and safe integration between your systems and ours. With well-documented endpoints and standardized communication protocols, we can eliminate manual data transfers, gaining a near real-time understanding of school connectivity.

What kind of network data does Giga require and why?

We aim to collect data that will help us define a fair, robust and transparent way to represent school connectivity. To get there, we are systematically analyzing and experimenting with different types of network data, with the objective of identifying the measurement points that offer the most realistic and robust insight into school connectivity status. At the moment, we are looking for network measurements for schools taken at the Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) level, but feel free to share data taken across other points on your network, if applicable. An example of the data we will request is included below.

ISP and Network Information

ISP name

ISP operating country

Contact details

Network technology (type of technology used to connect the school)

Point of measurement (school main CPE router or switch, or a system that measures at that level)

Network Connectivity Parameters such as:

Upload and download speed

Package loss

Availability

Latency

Timestamp

Monthly usage (GB)

Additional parameters that qualify school connectivity

School Attributes

List of connected schools

Unique ID for each school (ideally NEMIS code or unique government ID for schools) – if available

School location

API Information

API URL / URI to a REST API

Key / Authentication details

Quick start guide for API

Documentation explaining the API endpoints and parameters, including measurement units