ITU

aid: itu
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/itu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: ITU
kind: company
description: 'The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and
  communication technologies, headquartered in Geneva and made up of 194 Member States plus roughly 1,000 sector members.
  It sits at the top of the global telecom value chain rather than inside it: ITU-R allocates the global radio spectrum and
  manages the master international frequency register and satellite filings, ITU-T publishes the Recommendations that define
  interoperable telecom networks, and ITU-D collects and publishes the world''s reference ICT statistics. Its market is Global
  by treaty. Its API posture is genuinely open but entirely undeclared: ITU operates real, anonymously callable HTTP APIs
  behind the DataHub statistics portal and behind an ITU-D "Proximity to Fibre Node" demonstration built on the ITU Broadband
  Maps, and neither requires a key, a login, or a partner agreement — but there is no developer portal, no api.itu.int, no
  published OpenAPI, no SDK, no terms of programmatic use, and the official ITU GitHub organization has zero public repositories.
  ITU is not a CAMARA participant and not a GSMA Open Gateway operator; network APIs are being standardised outside the UN
  system, and ITU''s role in that layer is limited to the IMT requirements framework rather than any callable interface.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Telecommunications
- Global
- Regulator
- Standards
- Spectrum
- Satellite
- Broadband
- ICT Statistics
- Open Data
- United Nations
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-26'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: itu:itu-datahub-api
  name: ITU DataHub API
  description: The undocumented JSON API that serves the ITU DataHub (datahub.itu.int), ITU's official ICT statistics portal
    and the successor to ICT Eye. Confirmed anonymously callable on 2026-07-25 with no key, header, or referer required —
    /v2/country/all returns the full country reference list, /v2/region/all the ITU/BDT and UN M49 groupings, /v2/dictionaries/getcategories
    the full indicator dictionary, /v2/data/bycode/{codeID} the time series for an indicator, and /v2/idi/* and /v2/umc/*
    the ICT Development Index and Universal Meaningful Connectivity dashboards. ITU publishes no documentation, no OpenAPI,
    and no terms of programmatic use for this surface; the endpoint list was recovered from the DataHub client bundle, so
    it should be treated as an internal backend that happens to be public rather than as a supported product API.
  humanURL: https://datahub.itu.int/
  baseURL: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  tags:
  - ICT Statistics
  - Open Data
  - Indicators
  - Connectivity
  - Regulator
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-datahub-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/itu-datahub-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datahub.itu.int/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://datahub.itu.int/data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/
- aid: itu:itu-proximity-to-fibre-node-api
  name: ITU Proximity to Fibre Node API
  description: An ITU-D Technology and Network Development API that scores a batch of coordinates against the ITU Interactive
    Transmission Map (Broadband Maps) fibre network data. Two routes are published on the ITU-D demonstration page — route-calcdistancetonode
    returns the proximity band to the nearest fibre node, and route-calc10kmintersection returns a within-10km flag. Both
    accept a POSTed text/csv body with X and Y columns and return a URL to a generated ZIP of results; both were confirmed
    returning HTTP 200 with real output on 2026-07-25. Access is by an Azure Functions function key passed as a ?code= query
    parameter that ITU embeds in the public web client, so it is effectively open; there is no signup, no OpenAPI, and no
    rate limit published.
  humanURL: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Technology/Pages/EmergingTechnologiesPages/api.aspx
  baseURL: https://bbmaps.itu.int/functionproximity
  tags:
  - Broadband
  - Fibre
  - Geospatial
  - Connectivity
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-proximity-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/itu-proximity-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Technology/Pages/EmergingTechnologiesPages/api.aspx
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Technology/Pages/EmergingTechnologiesPages/api.aspx
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Technology/Pages/InteractiveTransmissionMaps.aspx
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/itu-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/itu-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/itu-domain-security.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/itu-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/itu-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/itu-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/itu-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/itu-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/itu-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/itu-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/itu-llms.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://bbmaps.itu.int/llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.itu.int/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/publications/Pages/recs.aspx
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ITUINT
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/itu
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.itu.int/hub/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.itu.int/home/contact/index.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/terms-of-use.aspx
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/privacy-notice.aspx
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com