IIPdash is a digital infrastructure planning and analysis platform aiming to improve the understanding and decision making process related to digital infrastructure with consideration of social-economic, climate, environment and infrastructure factors.
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This platform helps you explore the potential of an integrated infrastructure planning (IIP) approach to inform investments in digital infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries. Its goal is to demonstrate the value of IIPs in guiding decisions that serve regional and country development objectives.
Example: Platform preview
Interactive dashboards for integrated infrastructure planning
- Explore regional and country-level digital and physical infrastructure through interactive, map-driven dashboards.
- Support a question-driven approach to decision-making, helping planners focus on real infrastructure planning needs rather than individual datasets.
- Use predefined presets that combine multiple datasets and generate summary statistics to answer common planning questions (eg. how is the schools connectivity).
Example: Country education dashboard
Cross-sectoral data integration in a unified geospatial framework
- Combine infrastructure, social, economic, environmental and climate risk datasets in a single platform.
- The Climate and environmental layers include flood, drought and cyclone exposure. These layers enable creation of summary statistics on vulnerable communities.
- Enable analysis to reflect the reality that infrastructure planning questions span multiple data domains.
Example: Vulnerable communities
Geospatial analytics across the infrastructure lifecycle
- Support infrastructure design, implementation and monitoring & evaluation (M&E) using geospatial analytics.
- Identify opportunities for energy, digital deployment and identify locations for climate risk hotspots during planning.
- Evaluate outcomes to understand whether infrastructure investments improve connectivity, resilience and community outcomes.
Example: Gaps in digital access
Advanced spatial analysis and GIS-based visualization
- Visualize infrastructure and risk in geographic context using maps, overlays, filters and spatial queries.
- Measure accessibility, proximity (e.g. distance to fiber) and exposure to hazards.
- Dynamically filter datasets by infrastructure type, socio-economic indicators or selected hazards.
- Access maps, charts and summary statistics for reporting and policy discussions.
Web-based, open-source and customizable platform
- Access the platform through a modern web browser with no local installation required.
- Open-source architecture allows full customization to meet organizational and country-specific needs (e.g. data sources, presets, workflows).
- Designed for integration with existing GIS and planning tools used by institutions, this can be achieved through the provided API and documentation that faciliate smooth functionality discovery and integration with other tools.
Designed to support institutional adoption and collaboration
- Intended as an illustrative prototype demonstrating what is possible with integrated geospatial analytics.
- Can be repurposed, extended and operationalized.
- Supports collaboration among planners, GIS specialists, data managers and decision-makers.
- Government agencies planning digital infrastructure.
- International development organizations seeking evidence-based insights.
- Researchers and analysts in infrastructure, economics, or environmental planning.
- NGOs and private sector partners supporting regional development initiatives.
IIPDash is built on reliable, open-source technologies:
- Django for the web application framework.
- PostgreSQL/PostGIS for spatial and relational data storage.
- Celery and Redis for background processing and asynchronous tasks.
Information about installation, development and deployment can be found here INSTALLATION.rst
API documentation is available see http://digitalinfraplanning.org/openapi/docs.
See CONTRIBUTING.rst for the contributing guidelines for this project.