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Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.

Connectivity CoP — May Session Recap: Shaping the Internet Quality Barometer for Education (IQB-Edu)

Two months after our March launch, the Connectivity Community of Practice (CCoP) gathered again on May 18–19, spanning time zones from Michigan to Uganda, Washington DC to Barcelona. The conversation centered on the Internet Quality Barometer for Education (IQB-Edu) — a new measurement framework designed specifically for school connectivity.

Connectivity Community of Practice Launch!

On March 11, 2026, M-Lab and Giga formally launched the Connectivity Community of Practice (CCoP) and held the inaugural session with 51 global participants representing backgrounds from academia, industry, civil society and international NGOs. The event introduced the CoP’s initial focus areas and invited participants to help shape its first-year agenda through an interactive Community document.

M-Lab and Giga to Launch Community of Practice to Advance School Connectivity Measurement

M-Lab and Giga to Launch Community of Practice to Advance School Connectivity Measurement Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is excited to announce the early launch of a new Connectivity Community of Practice for applied Internet measurement in collaboration with Giga.

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M-Lab provides the largest collection of open Internet performance data on the planet. As a consortium of research, industry, and public-interest partners, M-Lab is dedicated to providing an ecosystem for the open, verifiable measurement of global network performance. Real science requires verifiable processes, and M-Lab welcomes scientific collaboration and scrutiny. This is why all of the data collected by M-Lab’s global measurement platform are made openly available, and all of the measurement tools hosted by M-Lab are open source. Anyone with time and skill can review and improve the underlying methodologies and assumptions on which M-Lab’s platform, tools, and data rely. Transparency and review are key to good science, and good science is key to good measurement.

Measurement Lab is led by teams based at Superbloom; Google, Inc; and supported by partners around the world.

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Measurement Lab

Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.