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{"slug": "stevesong--awesome-connectivity-info", "title": "Awesome Connectivity Info", "description": "Awesome list of connectivity indexes and reports to help you better under who has access to communication infrastructure and on what terms.", "github_url": "https://github.com/stevesong/awesome-connectivity-info", "stars": "152", "tag": "Miscellaneous", "entry_count": 60, "subcategory_count": 1, "subcategories": [{"name": "Global Connectivity Indexes", "parent": "", "entries": [{"name": "ITU Measuring digital development", "url": "https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/facts/default.aspx", "description": "Facts and Figures. ([2023](https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-d/opb/ind/d-ind-ict_mdd-2023-1-pdf-e.pdf)) ([March 2023 - Focus on Least Developed Countries](https://www.itu.int/hub/publication/d-ind-ict_mdd-2023/)) ([2022](https://www.itu.int/hub/publication/d-ind-ict_mdd-2022/)) ([2021](https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/facts/FactsFigures2021.pdf)) ([2020](https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/facts/FactsFigures2020.pdf)) ([2019](https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/facts/FactsFigures2019.pdf)) ([2017](https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/facts/ICTFactsFigures2017.pdf))."}, {"name": "GSMA Mobile Connectivity Index", "url": "https://www.mobileconnectivityindex.com/", "description": "(2023) Measures countries against four enablers of mobile internet adoption: Infrastructure, Affordability, Consumer Readiness and Content."}, {"name": "Inclusive Internet Index", "url": "https://theinclusiveinternet.eiu.com/", "description": "(2022) Index sponsored by Meta measuring internet connectivity against Availability, Affordability, Relevance and Readiness."}, {"name": "Huawei Global Connectivity Index", "url": "https://www.huawei.com/minisite/gci/en/", "description": "(2020) Snapshot of 50 nations’ \"Digital Transformation\" status measured against Supply, Demand, Experience and Potential."}, {"name": "Cisco Visual Networking Index", "url": "https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/index.html", "description": "Forecast and Trends, 2017–2022 White Paper."}, {"name": "ITU Broadband Atlas", "url": "https://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/atlas/broadbandatlas.asp", "description": "(2010) Interactive infographic tool showcasing the status of broadband deployment worldwide and the regulatory landscape for broadband."}, {"name": "InternetLiveStats", "url": "http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users-by-country/", "description": "(2016) Internet Users by Country, interpolated from ITU, United Nations Population Division, Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), and World Bank data."}, {"name": "Internet World Stats", "url": "https://www.internetworldstats.com/", "description": "Internet users compiled from Nielsen and ITU statistics."}, {"name": "ITU ICT Development Index", "url": "https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/IDI/default.aspx", "description": "([2024](https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/idi2024)) ([2023](https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/IDI2023/)) ([2017](http://www.itu.int/net4/ITU-D/idi/)) Composite index based on three pillars, ICT Access, ICT Use, and ICT Skills."}, {"name": "World Economic Forum - Networked Readiness Index", "url": "http://reports.weforum.org/global-information-technology-report-2016/networked-readiness-index/", "description": "(2016)."}, {"name": "UN E-Government Knowledge Database", "url": "https://publicadministration.un.org/egovkb/en-us/Data-Center", "description": "(2024)."}, {"name": "Speedtest Global Index", "url": "https://www.speedtest.net/global-index", "description": "(2024) Index of mobile and fixed broadband speeds from around the world on a monthly basis."}, {"name": "Internet Poverty Index", "url": "https://internetpoverty.io/", "description": ""}, {"name": "Emerging Digital Powerhouse Index", "url": "https://www.airgain.com/blog/emerging-digital-powerhouse-index/", "description": ""}, {"name": "African Undersea Cables", "url": "https://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/", "description": "Steve Song's map of African undersea fibre optic cables."}, {"name": "African Terrestrial Fibre Optic Infrastructure", "url": "https://afterfibre.nsrc.org/", "description": "Map of African terrestrial fibre networks, Creative Commons, Open Data."}, {"name": "Global CDN Infrastructure Map", "url": "https://opentelecomdata.org/cdns/", "description": "Steve Song's open data map of Content Distribution Networks around the world (May 2024)."}, {"name": "Africa Telecoms Map 2024", "url": "https://africa-map-2024.telegeography.com/", "description": "Telegeography's 2024 map of African telecoms including undersea cables, international bandwidth, and cloud data centres."}, {"name": "Africa Bandwidth Maps", "url": "http://www.africabandwidthmaps.com/", "description": "Paul Hamilton's map of African terrestrial fibre and microwave networks."}, {"name": "Telegeography Submarine Cable Map", "url": "https://www.submarinecablemap.com/", "description": "Interactive submarine fibre optic cables."}, {"name": "Submarine Telecoms Forum", "url": "https://subtelforum.com/online-map/", "description": "SubTelForum has an excellent interactive map and directory of undersea cables as well as an annual almanac."}, {"name": "Telegeography Cloud Infrastructure Map", "url": "https://www.cloudinfrastructuremap.com/", "description": "Map of cloud infastructure providers around the world."}, {"name": "ITU Infrastructure Connectivity Map", "url": "https://bbmaps.itu.int/bbmaps/", "description": "Online map of undersea and terrestrial fibre optic networks from ITU."}, {"name": "GSMA Mobile Coverage Maps @ Mobile World Live", "url": "http://maps.mobileworldlive.com/", "description": "Somewhat dated but still useful map of mobile network coverage on country by country basis."}, {"name": "Hurricane Electric 3D map", "url": "http://he.net/3d-map/", "description": "Interactive 3D map of undersea cables and Hurrican Electric Points of Presence (POPs) and routes."}, {"name": "GSMA Mobile Network Coverage Maps", "url": "https://www.mobilecoveragemaps.com", "description": "Taken offline in April 2024."}, {"name": "nperf Mobile coverage maps", "url": "https://www.nperf.com/en/map", "description": "mobile coverage based on data collected from [nperf app](https://www.nperf.com/en/nperf-applications/)."}, {"name": "ITU Disaster Connectivity Map", "url": "https://dcm.itu.int/", "description": "a map to assist disaster first responders in determining the status of telecommunications network infrastructure, coverage, and performance."}, {"name": "Ookla Data for Good", "url": "https://www.ookla.com/ookla-for-good/open-data", "description": "Ookla maintain an open dataset and map of results from their Speedtest Global index."}, {"name": "Mobile Gender Gap Report", "url": "https://www.gsma.com/r/gender-gap/", "description": ""}, {"name": "GSMA Mobile Economy", "url": "https://www.gsma.com/mobileeconomy/", "description": "([2025](https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/connectivity-for-good/mobile-economy/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/030325-The-Mobile-Economy-2025.pdf)) ([2024](https://www.gsma.com/mobileeconomy/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/260224-The-Mobile-Economy-2024.pdf)) ([2023](https://www.gsma.com/mobileeconomy/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/270223-The-Mobile-Economy-2023.pdf)) ([2022](https://www.gsma.com/mobileeconomy/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/280222-The-Mobile-Economy-2022.pdf)) ([2019](https://manypossibilities.net/report-archives/GSMA_The_Mobile_Economy_2019.pdf)) ([2018](https://manypossibilities.net/report-archives/GSMA_The_Mobile_Economy_2018.pdf))"}, {"name": "Ericsson Mobility Report", "url": "https://www.ericsson.com/en/mobility-report", "description": "([Q2 2024](https://www.ericsson.com/4a4b71/assets/local/reports-papers/mobility-report/documents/2024/ericsson-mobility-report-q2-2024-update.pdf)) ([2024](https://www.ericsson.com/4912e3/assets/local/reports-papers/mobility-report/documents/2024br/emr-business-review-2024.pdf)) ([Jun 2023](https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/mobility-report/reports/june-2023)) ([Nov 2022](https://www.ericsson.com/4ae28d/assets/local/reports-papers/mobility-report/documents/2022/ericsson-mobility-report-november-2022.pdf)) ([Jun 2022](https://www.ericsson.com/49d3a0/assets/local/reports-papers/mobility-report/documents/2022/ericsson-mobility-report-june-2022.pdf)) ([Nov 2021](https://www.ericsson.com/assets/local/reports-papers/mobility-report/documents/2021/ericsson-mobility-report-november-2021.pdf)) ([Q2 2020 Update](https://www.ericsson.com/4a4e5d/assets/local/mobility-report/documents/2020/emr-q2-update-03092020.pdf)) ([Jun 2020](https://www.ericsson.com/49c840/assets/local/mobility-report/documents/2020/june2020-ericsson-mobility-report.pdf)) ([Nov 2019](https://www.ericsson.com/en/mobility-report/reports/november-2019)) ([Nov 2018](https://www.ericsson.com/assets/local/mobility-report/documents/2018/ericsson-mobility-report-november-2018.pdf)) ([June 2018](https://www.ericsson.com/assets/local/mobility-report/documents/2018/ericsson-mobility-report-june-2018.pdf))."}, {"name": "Deloitte - Global mobile consumer trends", "url": "https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/gx-global-mobile-consumer-trends.html", "description": ""}, {"name": "A4AI Affordability Report", "url": "http://a4ai.org/affordability-report/report/", "description": "([2020](https://a4ai.org/affordability-report/report/2020/)) ([2019](https://a4ai.org/affordability-report/report/2019/)) ([2018](http://1e8q3q16vyc81g8l3h3md6q5f5e-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/A4AI-2018-Affordability-Report.pdf)) ([2017](http://a4ai.org/affordability-report/report/2017))."}, {"name": "Akamai State of the Internet / Connectivity Report", "url": "https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/q1-2017-state-of-the-internet-connectivity-report.pdf", "description": "(Q1 2017) Report on connectivity from large CDN company."}, {"name": "World Economic Forum - Global Information Technology Report", "url": "http://reports.weforum.org/global-information-technology-report-2016/", "description": "(2016) Examines the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in driving innovation and includes Network Readiness Index."}, {"name": "AfterAccess - Mobile & Internet Use in the Global South", "url": "http://afteraccess.net/wp-content/uploads/After-Access-Website-layout-r1.pdf", "description": "Infographic highlights of nationally representative surveys of ICT access and use by households and individuals in the public domain in 16 developing countries of the Global South."}, {"name": "DataReportal", "url": "https://datareportal.com/", "description": "Global and national reports on data usage collected via third parties, produced by market analysis firm Kepios."}, {"name": "e-Conomy Africa 2020", "url": "https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/publications_ext_content/ifc_external_publication_site/publications_listing_page/google-e-conomy", "description": ""}, {"name": "Open Signal - State of Mobile Networks Reports", "url": "http://opensignal.com/reports/", "description": "Report covers a potpourri of countries based on OpenSignal data gathering."}, {"name": "Open Signal - The state of mobile network experience in Africa", "url": "https://www.opensignal.com/2024/11/11/the-state-of-mobile-network-experience-in-africa", "description": "(November 2024) A look at download speeds and network quality in 27 African countries."}, {"name": "Lions go digital: The Internet’s transformative potential in Africa", "url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/lions-go-digital-the-internets-transformative-potential-in-africa", "description": "(2013) Report by global consulting firm McKinsey on the potential impact of the Internet in Africa."}, {"name": "The Global Findex", "url": "https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/globalfindex", "description": "The Global Findex has been published since 2011 but as of 2025 now includes Digital Connectivity Tracker"}, {"name": "Internet Resilience Index (IRI)", "url": "https://pulse.internetsociety.org/resilience", "description": "Developed by the Internet Society, the IRI monitors select, weighted indicators to measure Internet resilience"}, {"name": "ITU Data Hub", "url": "https://datahub.itu.int/", "description": "a revamp of the ITU World ICT/Telecommunication Indicators Database (WTID), now free for non-commercial use"}, {"name": "SpeedChecker Insights", "url": "https://insights.speedchecker.com/", "description": "Periodic country-level reports on mobile internet speeds, latency, and coverage"}, {"name": "Cloudflare Radar", "url": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/", "description": "([2024](https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2024-year-in-review/)) ([2023](https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2023-year-in-review/)) ([2022](https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2022-year-in-review/)) Invaluable resource on internet traffic, security, routing, outages, DNS, and more."}, {"name": "GSMA - Enabling Rural Coverage", "url": "https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Enabling_Rural_Coverage_English_February_2018.pdf", "description": "(Feb 2018) Regulatory and policy recommendations to foster mobile broadband coverage in developing countries."}, {"name": "SimilarWeb - Mobile App Ranking", "url": "https://www.similarweb.com/apps/top/google/app-index/us/all/top-free", "description": "Ranking of popular mobile apps across countries."}, {"name": "Global Stats by StatCounter", "url": "http://gs.statcounter.com/", "description": "Browser market share over time by browser, region, OS."}, {"name": "Global Mobile Suppliers Association", "url": "https://gsacom.com/", "description": "Various reports on LTE and 5G adoption."}, {"name": "Continent of Africa: High Resolution Population Density Maps", "url": "https://data.humdata.org/dataset/highresolutionpopulationdensitymaps", "description": ""}, {"name": "Kleiner Perkins Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report", "url": "https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/internet-trends-report-2018/", "description": "(May 2018) Trends that affect and drive internet uptake globally."}, {"name": "WEF Internet for All", "url": "https://www.weforum.org/reports/internet-for-all-a-framework-for-accelerating-internet-access-and-adoption/", "description": "(2016) A Framework for Accelerating Internet Access and Adoption."}, {"name": "M-Lab Global Network Diagnostic Tool", "url": "https://datastudio.google.com/s/r6ZnlTmHfwE", "description": "M-Lab is an open, verifiable measurement platform for global network performance."}, {"name": "LTE, WiMAX, HSPA+, 3G, GSM information by country", "url": "https://www.worldtimezone.com/4g.html", "description": "Reasonably up-to-date list of mobile networks around the world and their associated frequencies."}, {"name": "Cisco Annual Internet Report (2018–2023) White Paper", "url": "https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/executive-perspectives/annual-internet-report/white-paper-c11-741490.html", "description": "Updated:February 28, 2020."}, {"name": "IPinfo.io - Country Pages", "url": "https://ipinfo.io/countries", "description": "Summary of country-level IP data covering top ASNs, important routers, city-level information, carrier IPs, and other IP data."}, {"name": "Cloudflare Radar's Internet Quality Index", "url": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/quality", "description": "Estimated country-level internet download speeds and performance."}, {"name": "USAID Digital Ecosystem Country Assessments", "url": "https://www.usaid.gov/digital-strategy/implementation-tracks/track1-adopt-ecosystem/digital-ecosystem-country-assessments", "description": "[Ghana 2024](https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/USAID_DECA_Ghana.pdf) [Tanzania 2023](https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2023-05/Tanzania%20DECA%20Report.pdf) [Mali 2023](https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2023-05/Mali%20DECA_English.pdf) [Zambia 2022](https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/USAID_Zambia_DECA.pdf) [Bangladesh 2023](https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/USAID_Bangladesh_DECA_1.pdf) [Nepal 2022](https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2022-05/USAID_Nepal_Digital_Ecosystem_Country_Assessment_FINAL.pdf) [Libya 2022](https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/USAID_Libya_DECA.pdf) See website for others."}]}]} |