GovTech and open data – Giga's open source journey

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Giga compiles government spreadsheets and OpenStreetMap layers into a public school location and connectivity database deployed at maps.giga.global, plus open source tools for internet quality monitoring in schools. Five years in, the project converts messy Excel columns and mixed spellings into geocoded points, reveals gaps where submarine cable landings don’t reach schools, and surfaces stark inequities (over 90% in some indigenous regions live below the poverty line versus ~20% nationally). Governments, ISPs and humanitarian mappers reuse the data.

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