News
Read the stories from our Middle East Chapters.
Technology in the Middle East: 21 key stats on the good, the bad and the ugly
In the News
8 October 2021
Technology in the Middle East: 21 key stats on the good, the bad and the ugly
ZDNet
Pandemic and Digital Transformation—The Middle East and North Africa Are Ready to Level Up
Growing the Internet
6 October 2021
Pandemic and Digital Transformation—The Middle East and North Africa Are Ready to Level Up
Demand for the Internet has been on the rise since the advent of COVID-19, and it’s a trend likely...
How Working ‘The Internet Way’ Helped the Middle East and North Africa Score Social and Economic Benefits
Internet Way of Networking
9 July 2021
How Working ‘The Internet Way’ Helped the Middle East and North Africa Score Social and Economic Benefits
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), some countries have responded to the challenges of the global pandemic...
Mind the Gap: Understanding tech bans and outages in the Middle East
In the News
28 April 2021
Mind the Gap: Understanding tech bans and outages in the Middle East
ZDNet
Resources
Please find in this section, relevant material and policies for the Middle East Region.
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Impact of COVID-19 on the Internet Ecosystem in the Middle East and North Africa
This paper focuses on the challenges of addressing the COVID-19 crisis and its potential aftermath in the Middle East...
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Middle East & North Africa Internet Infrastructure Report
In this paper we focus on expanding and upgrading infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Enabling Digital Opportunities in the Middle East
Preface The Middle East (ME) is an incredibly diverse region with over 350 million people with widely varying states of...
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Internet Society Perspectives on Internet Content Blocking: An Overview
The goal of this paper is to provide a technical assessment of different methods of blocking Internet content, including...
Our Members
The Middle East region currently counts 2,214 individual members, out of whom 49% (1,083) are also members of one of our Chapters in the region. Our Chapters in the region are in Bahrain, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen. (as of December 2020)