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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 2025
Our 2025 Action Plan outlines our priorities in 2025, the first year of our 2030 Strategy.
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.
Enabling Digital Opportunities in the Middle East
The Middle East (ME) is an incredibly diverse region with over 350 million people with widely varying states of Internet access and digital readiness. Using research created ...
Policy Brief: Spectrum Approaches for Community Networks
Paper focused on the importance of enabling access to spectrum for the deployment of community networks (2017) ...
Tusheti Case Study
Find out how one of Europe's most remote communities set up a community network, boosting tourism, the local economy and providing an essential communication link for healthcare and emergency situations ...
Community Networks: Regulatory issues and gaps – Experiences from India
Improving the availability of affordable broadband and understanding the legal and regulatory challenges of spectrum allocation, licensing regulation, and bandwidth issues in India ...
Internet Society contribution to WTDC 2017
The Internet Society submitted the attached contribution to the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference 2017 (WTDC 2017). The document is available in French and Spanish by the use of the ...
Global Internet Report 2017: Paths to Our Digital Future
The Report focuses attention on the significant potential of the Internet for innovation and sustainable development, but without denying or shirking the challenges it also introduces ...
New Security Mechanisms for Network Time Synchronization Protocols
As evolving security concerns have prevailed, the network time synchronization protocol community has been actively engaged in the development of improved security mechanisms for both the IEEE 1588 Precision Time ...
NYC Mesh Interim Report June, 2017
NYC Mesh: Internet for Everyone
More than one in four New Yorkers lack access to broadband internet at home, according to the city comptroller ...
Issue Paper: Asia-Pacific Bureau – Digital Accessibility
Building on the human rights perspective and business case for digital accessibility presented in the Internet Society Policy Brief on Accessibility,[1] this issues paper focuses on the challenges and opportunities ...
A Brave New World: How the Internet Affects Societies
On 11 May 2017 the Internet Society and Chatham House convened a roundtable discussion, held under the Chatham House Rule, at which a culturally and geographically diverse set of participants ...
Tajikistan Internet Exchange Point Environment Assessment
The establishment of an efficient Internet exchange point (IXP) in Tajikistan is a key part of improving the overall Internet ecosystem in the country, not only at a technical level ...
Ensuring Sustainable Connectivity in Small Island Developing States
This report aims to shed light on the key connectivity issues for SIDS nations and to help share knowledge on potential strategies to address them for national and regional policy ...
Archives
2016 Honor Roll Methodology
The 2016 Online Trust Audit has evolved over the past 8 years and includes a composite analysis focusing on three major categories; a company’s consumer protection, data and site security ...
2016 Online Trust Honor Roll Leaders
2016 Consumer Brands - Honor Roll Recipients
“Trust is the foundation of the digital economy. The OTA’s Online Trust Audit reinforces the need for all organizations to invest in ...
2016 Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll
The primary goal of the Audit and report is to help drive the adoption of best practices and provide prescriptive tools and resources to aid companies in enhancing their security, ...
Policy Brief: Identity on the Internet
On the Internet, your digital identity is not just a name, it is who you are and your key to online interactions. Digital identities help users protect their privacy; segregate ...
OECD 2016 Ministerial Meeting on The Digital Economy: Background Paper
In most Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, the digital economy has become the economy. The Internet and ICTs permeate societies and economies at the global and local ...
RIPE Atlas Probes and Anchors
RIPE Atlas is being used by many researchers and network operators worldwide, and you might have seen it mentioned in numerous blog posts or other publications. But what is RIPE Atlas ...
2015 Data Protection & Breach Readiness Guide
The threat level has never been higher for any organization. As recent headlines attest, no company, organization or government agency is immune to targeted attacks by persistent, skilled adversaries. Their ...
Internet Governance – Why the Multistakeholder Approach Works
The multistakeholder governance framework is informed by three components: a) opened-ended unleashed innovation (infrastructure), b) decentralized governance institutions (governance) and, c) open and inclusive processes (human) ...
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.