Martin Schaaper is the Senior ICT Analyst of the ICT Data and Analytics Division of the International Telecommunication Union’s Telecommunication Development Bureau, where he has been working since September 2017. He is responsible for the design and coordination of the Division’s analytical publications, including the Measuring Digital Development series, and contributes to and coordinates the analysis of information society developments, including in the context of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is also the ITU functional lead on data and mapping for Giga, the joint ITU-UNICEF global initiative to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. Before joining ITU, he worked for eight years at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics as Head of Section on Science, Culture and Communication, eight years for the OECD and six years for Eurostat. Mr Schaaper holds a master’s degree in econometrics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.