The Giga Digital Repository is a comprehensive source for information on school connectivity. Organized around key stages of the connectivity journey, this curated repository gives stakeholders an overview of the essential tools, reports, data platforms, and guidance materials to support their efforts.
Whether you are seeking general information or want to focus on a specific area, these links will provide the material to deepen your knowledge about the technology, finance and policy options that go into designing and implementing sustainable and meaningful school connectivity.
It also serves as a companion to the Giga Learning Hub, supporting capacity development efforts through structured training materials, case studies and real-world examples. By centralizing key knowledge, the Giga Digital Repository helps scale up school connectivity efforts and ensures that no learner is left offline.
Planning
Early-stage tools and resources that support identifying needs, assessing infrastructure gaps, and setting priorities.
A web-based tool that visualizes broadband and ICT infrastructure to support planning and decision-making for connectivity initiatives.
A global dataset and analysis of children’s access to digital learning and home internet. Highlights connectivity gaps by region, income level, and age.
A platform providing ICT statistics, infrastructure maps, and broadband access data. Supports planning and monitoring of national school connectivity initiatives.
Provides regularly updated data on broadband subscriptions, speeds, and coverage across OECD countries. Useful for identifying infrastructure gaps and monitoring digital inclusion trends.
Provides country-specific maps illustrating how infrastructure data is used to analyze school connectivity planning and decision-making.
2025 – An ITU report analyzing global trends in the affordability of ICT services. Tracks changes in prices across mobile, fixed broadband, and data-only services to monitor digital inclusion progress.
2025 – Analyzes policy approaches to expand broadband access, with a focus on underserved communities. Offers recommendations to improve affordability, coverage, and digital inclusion.
2024 – Provides global and regional ICT statistics on access, usage, and digital inclusion. Helps inform planning and priority-setting for school connectivity.
Preparation
Tools and reports that support budgeting, modeling, scenario planning, and procurement preparation.
COMING SOON – An interactive tool that maps and analyzes the most cost-effective technology options to connect schools and other key sites. Supports planning with customizable data and cost-based deployment scenarios.
2025 – A resource hub with training materials on how to map, analyze, and plan ICT infrastructure for connectivity, using ITU’s methodology.
2025 – Summarizes insights from the DIII launch phase, highlighting early lessons on financing digital infrastructure with input from over 40 global partners and the G20.
Implementation
Guidance on how to carry out school connectivity projects, including procurement, funding models, and technology solutions.
2024 – Analyzes who is investing in broadband and how, including public, private, and hybrid models. Discusses how investment trends are shaping future connectivity.
2024 – Outlines how to measure and map broadband coverage and quality of service for the EU Digital Decade targets. Supports consistent data collection and reporting.
2021 – An analytical report on bridging the digital financing gap. Offers tools and recommendations to design scalable funding mechanisms.
2021 – Explores infrastructure and business models tailored to different country contexts, with a focus on sustainable approaches for connecting schools in emerging markets.
2020 – A practical guide to extending connectivity to remote and underserved areas. Includes technology options, delivery models, and case studies.
Utilisation
Resources that go beyond infrastructure, focusing on how connectivity enables education systems and innovation.
2026 – Assesses how Mexico’s national digital learning platform affected student engagement, learning outcomes, and access.
2025 – Examines how EdTech was deployed during COVID-19 and why it failed to reach the most disadvantaged learners.
2025 – Maps 26 AI-driven education initiatives and examines the role of AI in improving education quality across Latin America.
2025 – Outlines how interoperable, scalable DPI can support inclusive digital learning and help governments strengthen education systems to achieve SDG4.
2024 – Explores how technology is shaping education systems, with a focus on equity, governance, and the need for context-driven digital strategies.
2021 – Highlights key actions to expand connectivity, foster innovation, and support economic growth and job creation.
Policy & Governance
Resources that go beyond infrastructure, focusing on how connectivity enables education systems and innovation.
This report explores how broadband connectivity and digital transformation continue to drive economic growth worldwide. Using econometric analysis across more than 100 countries, the findings highlight the critical role of connectivity, affordability, and policy frameworks in closing the digital divide, particularly in developing countries and underline the importance of investing in infrastructure and digital skills.
2025 – Tracks global trends in foreign direct investment and analyzes investment policy developments. Includes insights relevant to financing digital infrastructure in developing economies.
2025 – Provides an overview of spectrum policy approaches to expand wireless broadband coverage. Discusses key regulatory considerations for emerging technologies and efficient spectrum use.
Tracks global progress toward broadband access and highlights barriers to achieving universal connectivity. Offers policy recommendations and investment needs to close the digital divide.
2022 – Explores new approaches to spectrum policy to support connectivity expansion. Covers regulatory trends, emerging applications, and equitable access strategies.
2022 – Establishes the mandate for connecting all schools, emphasizing capacity development, partnerships, and inclusive digital access.
Open-Source Data Repositories
A curated list of open datasets, tools, and platforms offering spatial and thematic data to support evidence-based planning and analysis for school connectivity.
A powerful desktop application that allows school administrators to monitor and visualize the quality of their institution’s connectivity.
Step-by-step instructions to install and configure Giga Meter devices for school connectivity monitoring.
An open-source tool to monitor school connectivity status through automated daily checks. Helps verify uptime and reliability of internet connections in real time.
An open-source framework for collecting, standardizing, and sharing school connectivity data. Supports countries in managing geospatial and infrastructure data while ensuring data protection and usability.
A toolkit for scalable geospatial data download, processing, and enrichment, designed for use across diverse domains such as infrastructure mapping, accessibility analysis, and environmental studies.
Global, real-time Internet measurement platform providing open traceroute, ping, DNS, and latency data to monitor network availability and quality.
An open-access platform offering broadband speed and latency data collected worldwide. Enables analysis of internet performance and connectivity trends using openly available tools and datasets.
The world’s largest open database of mobile cell tower locations. Supports mapping of mobile coverage and identification of service gaps.
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