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.
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.
Community Networks in Latin America
Challenges, regulations and solutions to building and operating community networks in Latin America ...
Beyond the Net Impact Report 2017
The Internet Society is guided by the belief that for an Internet to exist for the good of all people, it must be shaped by diversity, inclusion, and equality ...
ITU Plenipotentiary 2018 – Issues Matrix
This chart identifies issues, areas of concern, organizations impacted, etc., on a best-effort basis. Suggestions to improve this work are welcome. The Internet Society has analysed outcomes of the 2018 ...
A Pilot Community Network in Pakistan: Online Supplementary Education and its Impact
This case study documents the impact of empowering teachers and students with digital tools and skills in a remote part of Pakistan ...
Digital Accessibility Guidelines – Building an Accessible Internet
The United Nations estimates that one in six people live with disability – that is a total of 650 million women, men and children in the Asia-Pacific region. Persons with ...
Meeting Europe’s Connectivity Challenge
This paper looks at the challenges and opportunities involved in setting up, maintaining and expanding Community Networks throughout Europe ...
Internet Crossing Borders: Boosting the Internet in Landlocked Developing Countries
Please note that this is NOT the full report, but the Executive Summary with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan Case Studies. The full report will be ready soon, stay tuned for the ...
Encryption Brief
Encryption is the process of scrambling or enciphering data so it can be read only by someone with the means to return it to its original state ...
The Year That Was Report
A report on the initiatives and activities of the Asia-Pacific Bureau for 2017 ...
Policy Development Process at the Internet Society
The Internet Society advocates for policies that enhance security and privacy, enable the growth of Internet access, and promote the ecosystem of transparent, multistakeholder Internet governance ...
Unleashing Community Networks: Innovative Licensing Approaches
An overview of the innovative and flexible licensing options available for community networks and tips on how to overcome start-up barriers ...
Archives
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: Encryption
Encryption technologies enable Internet users to protect the confidentiality of their data and communications from unwanted observation and intrusion ...
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 ...
Policy Brief: Adoption of IPv6
The IPv6 protocol standard is critical for supporting the Internet’s continued development. Network operators, content providers, software and hardware developers, and enterprises, among others, need to implement IPv6 in order ...
Testimony of Sally Wentworth before U.S. House about IANA Transition
On Thursday, May 17, 2016, Internet Society VP of Global Policy Development Sally Shipman Wentworth will testify before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and ...
2016 IRS eFile Audit
46% of IRS Free e-file Sites Receive Failing Grades ...
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.