Resource Library
Everyone should have access to an open and trusted Internet.
Read our reports, papers, and other documents for insight and vision on how we can get there.
Action Plan 2026
From our strategic vision to specific goals, read about how we’ll be advancing our five-year strategy in the coming year.
2019-2024 Impact Results
Our Impact Report is a snapshot of how we worked with our global community to grow, promote, and defend the Internet worldwide.
Internet Impact Briefs
Shorter reports that analyze how different policies or new technologies may affect what the Internet needs to exist and thrive.
Glossary of Internet Terms
Understand key terms and become fluent in the language of the Internet with our new and improved glossary.
Policy Briefs
Our perspective on critical Internet issues, including community networks, encryption, open Internet standards, Internet Exchange Points, and more.
Policy Brief: Age Restrictions and Online Safety
While often well-intentioned, policies requiring age checks create risks for people’s privacy, security, and access to an open Internet. ...
Policy Brief: Licensing Approaches for Community-Centered Connectivity
Discover how community-centered connectivity solutions empower underserved areas. Explore updated licensing options and principles for meaningful connectivity today ...
Policy Brief: Internet Governance
This policy brief explores the key considerations, challenges, and provides guiding principles of multistakeholder Internet governance of openness, inclusiveness, transparency, collaboration, shared responsibility, accountability, consensus-driven and pragmatic evidence-based approaches. ...
2026 Action Plan
From our strategic vision to specific goals, read about how we'll be advancing our five-year strategy in 2026 ...
WSIS+20 Revision 1 (Rev.1) Matrix – Internet Society Analysis
This document represents our ongoing efforts to identify how the language proposed in the first revision of the WSIS+20 Zero Draft aligns with the vision of an open, globally connected, ...
Policy Brief: Enhancing the Resilience of Submarine Internet Infrastructure
This document presents a forward-looking and optimistic approach to enhancing Internet resilience through practical and policy-driven solutions ...
World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25) Issues Matrix
This chart summarizes and systematizes the proposed changes to Internet-related WTDC-22 resolutions ...
Mandated DNS Blocking: Critical Considerations
Mandated DNS blocking is the wrong tool for public policy enforcement. The DNS exists to make the Internet usable, not to serve as a mechanism of control ...
Policy Brief: Internet Shutdowns
This policy brief urges policymakers to adopt policies that eliminate shutdowns as a tool and to analyze and weigh the effects of restricting access when addressing policy and security issues, ...
ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25) Background Paper
This background paper is intended to provide the Internet Society community and interested parties with a general overview of the ITU WTDC-25 and our perspectives on some of the main ...
Policy Brief: Spectrum Policy
We need deliberate policy and regulatory measures to ensure spectrum availability for community-centered initiatives ...
WSIS+20 Zero Draft Matrix – Internet Society Analysis
The Internet Society welcomes the opportunity to submit our comments on the WSIS+20 Zero Draft. We commend the co-facilitators' leadership and openness in facilitating stakeholders’ participation in the WSIS+20 ...
Archives
Policy Brief: Age Restrictions and Online Safety
While often well-intentioned, policies requiring age checks create risks for people’s privacy, security, and access to an open Internet. ...
Policy Brief: Licensing Approaches for Community-Centered Connectivity
Discover how community-centered connectivity solutions empower underserved areas. Explore updated licensing options and principles for meaningful connectivity today ...
Policy Brief: Internet Governance
This policy brief explores the key considerations, challenges, and provides guiding principles of multistakeholder Internet governance of openness, inclusiveness, transparency, collaboration, shared responsibility, accountability, consensus-driven and pragmatic evidence-based approaches. ...
Policy Brief: Enhancing the Resilience of Submarine Internet Infrastructure
This document presents a forward-looking and optimistic approach to enhancing Internet resilience through practical and policy-driven solutions ...
Mandated DNS Blocking: Critical Considerations
Mandated DNS blocking is the wrong tool for public policy enforcement. The DNS exists to make the Internet usable, not to serve as a mechanism of control ...
Policy Brief: Open Internet Standards
By actively promoting and formally recognizing open standards in public policy, we can protect the building blocks that enable interoperability, compatibility, and consistency across networks, countries and markets, to ensure ...
Policy Brief: Internet Shutdowns
This policy brief urges policymakers to adopt policies that eliminate shutdowns as a tool and to analyze and weigh the effects of restricting access when addressing policy and security issues, ...
Policy Brief: Spectrum Policy
We need deliberate policy and regulatory measures to ensure spectrum availability for community-centered initiatives ...
Policy Brief: Perspectives on Internet Content Blocking
The Internet Society encourages policymakers to prioritize solutions that tackle harmful content at its source, rather than relying on blunt technical measures that may create negative externalities to the open ...
Internet Society’s Comments on India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules 2025
Internet Society's comments and recommendations on India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules 2025 ...
Policy Strategies for Closing the Digital Divide
Explore tips, resources, and success stories to create inclusive Internet policies that empower local connectivity solutions ...
A Policy Framework for Internet Intermediaries and Content
Intermediary functions are crucial to the Internet’s existence. This paper provides a framework for understanding Internet intermediary functions and developing policy concerning responsibility for online content without harming individuals’ ...
Annual Reports and Financials
On annual basis, we publish annual reports (an Action Plan and Impact Report), as well as financial reports, annual financial statements, and Form 990s.
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