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Global Education Observatory

Open infrastructure
for global school data

GEO is a suite of open research projects building the data, models, and tools needed to measure, estimate, and improve educational access across low- and middle-income countries.

3
active projects
24+
countries
80k+
geocoded schools

Three research programs

Each project is open-access and designed to be built upon by the research community.

Coming Soon

TorchSDG4

High-resolution SDG4 sub-indicator mapping

Deep learning models for mapping SDG4 sub-indicators at high spatial resolution using satellite imagery — enabling education outcome estimation where EMIS data is sparse, delayed, or unreliable.

Deep Learning Satellite Imagery SDG4
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Model weights and data available upon publication.

Coming Soon

GEDEx

Global Education Data Exchange

Regional EMIS data collection and deep learning indicator estimation in collaboration with government and civil society partners in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Nigeria.

Philippines Cambodia Nigeria Collaborative
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In active development with regional partners.

Building the data infrastructure education research needs

GEO is a research program at the intersection of GeoAI, spatial data science, and international development — focused on making school-level data accessible, comparable, and useful across low- and middle-income countries.

All datasets are freely available for academic and humanitarian use. Models and code are released open-source on GitHub.