ITU

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.

ITU publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Dashboards API, Data API, IDI API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Telecommunications, Global, Regulator, Standards, and Spectrum.

The ITU catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

ITU’s developer surface includes authentication, code examples, documentation, engineering blog, support, and 19 more developer resources.

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25.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts 3 Agent Skills

Telecommunications Global Regulator Standards Spectrum Satellite BroadbandICT StatisticsOpen Data United Nations

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Composite quality — 25.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.6 / 15

Access Clarity 3.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 15.8 — up to +21.1 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Space and Satellite (operators, earth observation, ground segment)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ITU Dashboards API

Curated DataHub dashboard definitions.

ITU Data API

Indicator time series, by indicator, country and region aggregate.

ITU IDI API

ICT Development Index composite scores.

ITU Indicators API

The indicator dictionary — categories, definitions, units and coverage.

ITU Methodology API

Dataset provenance and the owning ITU divisions.

ITU Proximity API

Batch proximity scoring of coordinates against the ITU Interactive Transmission Map.

ITU Reference API

Country and region reference data.

ITU UMC API

Universal and Meaningful Connectivity targets and scores.

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Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

ITU DataHub API

OPEN COLLECTION

ITU Proximity to Fibre Node API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Build a country connectivity scorecard from ITU

AGENT SKILL

Score coordinates against ITU fibre infrastructure

AGENT SKILL

Look up an ITU ICT indicator for a country

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

ITU API Rules

62 rules · 58 errors 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Itu Datahub Overlay

9 actions · update · itu-datahub-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Itu Proximity Overlay

5 actions · update · itu-proximity-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Itu Authentication

none/apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Itu Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Itu Agentic Access

20 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Examples

Examples

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

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Overlay

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Source (apis.yml)

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.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
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: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: itu:itu-dashboards-api
  name: ITU Dashboards API
  description: Curated DataHub dashboard definitions.
  humanURL: https://datahub.itu.int/
  baseURL: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-dashboards-api-openapi.yml
  - 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/
  - 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
- aid: itu:itu-data-api
  name: ITU Data API
  description: Indicator time series, by indicator, country and region aggregate.
  humanURL: https://datahub.itu.int/
  baseURL: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  tags:
  - Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-data-api-openapi.yml
  - 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/
  - 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
- aid: itu:itu-idi-api
  name: ITU IDI API
  description: ICT Development Index composite scores.
  humanURL: https://datahub.itu.int/
  baseURL: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  tags:
  - IDI
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-idi-api-openapi.yml
  - 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/
  - 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
- aid: itu:itu-indicators-api
  name: ITU Indicators API
  description: The indicator dictionary — categories, definitions, units and coverage.
  humanURL: https://datahub.itu.int/
  baseURL: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  tags:
  - Indicators
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-indicators-api-openapi.yml
  - 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/
  - 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
- aid: itu:itu-methodology-api
  name: ITU Methodology API
  description: Dataset provenance and the owning ITU divisions.
  humanURL: https://datahub.itu.int/
  baseURL: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  tags:
  - Methodology
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-methodology-api-openapi.yml
  - 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/
  - 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
- aid: itu:itu-proximity-api
  name: ITU Proximity API
  description: Batch proximity scoring of coordinates against the ITU Interactive Transmission Map.
  humanURL: https://datahub.itu.int/
  baseURL: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  tags:
  - Proximity
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-proximity-api-openapi.yml
  - 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/
  - 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
- aid: itu:itu-reference-api
  name: ITU Reference API
  description: Country and region reference data.
  humanURL: https://datahub.itu.int/
  baseURL: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  tags:
  - Reference
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-reference-api-openapi.yml
  - 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/
  - 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
- aid: itu:itu-umc-api
  name: ITU UMC API
  description: Universal and Meaningful Connectivity targets and scores.
  humanURL: https://datahub.itu.int/
  baseURL: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  tags:
  - UMC
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/itu-umc-api-openapi.yml
  - 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/
  - 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: Overlay
  url: overlays/itu-datahub-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/itu-proximity-overlay.yaml
- 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: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/itu-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- 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

ITU API — frequently asked questions

Does ITU have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from ITU, including ITU Dashboards API, ITU Data API and ITU IDI API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the ITU API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for ITU, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the ITU API?

ITU uses bearer-token authentication (none/apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Itu Authentication.

Is the ITU API ready for AI agents?

ITU has a Kin Score of 25.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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