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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.

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By Melissa Newcomb

March 18, 2026

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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By Melissa Newcomb, Pavlos Sermpezis

February 26, 2026

OMG! The Fourth Open Measurement Gathering Report is Out Now

From 2024 to 2025, Measurement Lab, Censored Planet, IODA, and OONI organized four convenings called the Open Measurement Gatherings (OMG). The intention of these convenings was to build understanding, trust, and collaboration across open Internet measurement groups and this initiative was made possible with the support of the Open Technology Fund (OTF). From September 8-12, 2025, the Open Measurement Groups groups gathered in Estoril, Portugal for the fourth convening of the two-year program.

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By Melissa Newcomb, Pavlos Sermpezis

December 22, 2025

M-Lab at Pulse Research Week with Internet Society and Giga

From December 8-11, 2025, Measurement Lab (M-Lab) joined the Internet Society Pulse Research Week. On Day 4 Pavlos Sermpezis, M-Lab’s Director, Technical Lead, presented the Internet Quality Barometer prototype at the Giga offices in Barcelona. M-Lab discussed with the audience how IQB could be adapted for education.

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By Melissa Newcomb, Pavlos Sermpezis

December 18, 2025

Open Measurement Hackathon at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2025

M-Lab, OONI, IIJ, Dioptra Research Group, Cloudflare Radar, Reverse Traceroute, and IODA hosted the Open Measurement Hackathon, October 31, 2025, following the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2025 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

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By Chris Ritzo, Melissa Newcomb, Pavlos Sermpezis

November 12, 2025

Measurement Lab publishes new dataset of NDT7 measurements

A new dataset of ndt7 measurements is now available in BigQuery, offering access to measurements from a set of servers whose data had not been previously published.

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By Matt Mathis, Roberto D'Auria, Nathan Kinkade, Pavlos Sermpezis, Melissa Newcomb

July 15, 2025

OMG! Summary of the 3rd Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Ask Me Anything (AMA) event

On June 25, 2025, the Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) held a public event, “Open Measurement Gathering AMA”, featuring Censored Planet, IODA, OONI, and Measurement Lab.

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By Pavlos Sermpezis, Melissa Newcomb

July 15, 2025

Measurement Lab publishes the Internet Quality Barometer Framework

Measurement Lab is happy to announce the publication of the Internet Quality Barometer Framework!

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By Pavlos Sermpezis, Melissa Newcomb, Lai Yi Ohlsen

June 30, 2025

Pavlos Sermpezis joins Measurement Lab as Director, Tech Lead

Measurement Lab is pleased to announce the addition of Pavlos Sermpezis to our team as our new Director, Tech Lead. Many highly qualified and inspiring candidates applied for this position, and after extensive review we are pleased to announce Pavlos Sermpezis as Director, Tech Lead at Measuremen...

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By Georgia Bullen, Melissa Newcomb

April 21, 2025

OMG! Measurement Lab organized the second Open Measurement Gathering

The second Open Measurement Gathering took place in December 2024, organized by Measurement Lab (M-Lab) in collaboration with and hosted by the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) project at Georgia Tech’s Internet Intelligence Lab. For the second convening, the OMG groups focused on de...

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By Melissa Newcomb

April 16, 2025

Public Report for First Open Measurement Gathering (OMG)

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By Lai Yi Ohlsen, Melissa Newcomb

October 11, 2024

M-Lab Organizes and Participates in the First Open Measurement Gathering (OMG)

From June 11th-13th, 2024, Measurement Lab (M-Lab) organized and participated in the first of four convenings that will take place over the course of the Open Measurement Gatherings (OMG) project. The inaugural event was planned in collaboration with the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IO...

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By Lai Yi Ohlsen, Melissa Newcomb

August 14, 2024

Welcome to M-Lab’s New Senior Program Manager: Melissa Newcomb

Measurement Lab is pleased to announce the addition of Melissa Newcomb to our team as our new Senior Program Manager.

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By Lai Yi Ohlsen, Melissa Newcomb

June 20, 2024