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 2024
Our roadmap for tackling the threats and challenges for today’s Internet as we look to grow and defend it for future generations.
2023 Year in Review
The Year in Review shows the steps we took in 2023 to ensure the Internet is for everyone. Learn about the positive difference we made for the Internet.
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.
Internet Crossing Borders: Boosting the Internet in Landlocked Developing Countries
Encryption Brief
The Year That Was Report
Policy Development Process at the Internet Society
Unleashing Community Networks: Innovative Licensing Approaches
Internet Society-Chatham House Roundtable on Encryption and Lawful Access
Cryptography: CEO Questions for CTOs
Report from the Field: Post-Hurricane Connectivity in the Caribbean
2017 Indigenous Connectivity Summit Community Report
The Indigenous Connectivity Summit, held November 8 and 9, 2017, at Hotel Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was the first Internet Society meeting to focus on connecting North ...
Internet Access and Education
Enabling Digital Opportunities in the Middle East
Policy Brief: Spectrum Approaches for Community Networks
Archives
WTSA 2016 Matrix of Resolutions
This chart summarizes the proposed changes to Internet related WTSA-12 resolutions (including new resolutions) in an effort to identify issues, areas of concern, organizations impacted, etc., on a best-efforts basis. Suggestions to ...
Statement for the House of Representatives: “Understanding the Role of Connected Devices in Recent Cyber Attacks”
Statement for the Record
“Understanding the Role of Connected Devices in Recent Cyber Attacks”
United States House of Representatives
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Joint Hearing of the
Subcommittee on ...
Call for submissions by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
Please share information concerning the role of relevant standards and Internet governance bodies in protecting and promoting freedom of expression, and how that ...
2016 Email Marketing & Unsubscribe Audit
The 2016 Audit found that the vast majority of top online retailers have embraced unsubscribe best practices that go beyond mere compliance and have shown improvement since 2014 despite more ...
Overview of the Digital Object Architecture (DOA)
Policy Brief: Internet Invariants
Online Identity: Who, Me?
Policy Brief: Zero-Rating
Policy Brief: The Internet of Things
IANA Amicus Brief
RW10k: Combating Spam as Network Operators
Support for the timely transition of IANA Stewardship
The Honorable Charles Grassley
Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary 135 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510The Honorable Ted Cruz
Chairman, Subcommittee on ...Organization Reports
On annual basis, we publish annual reports (an Action Plan and Impact Report), as well as financial reports, annual financial statements, and Form 990s.