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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.

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Action Plan 2025

Our 2025 Action Plan outlines our priorities in 2025, the first year of our 2030 Strategy.

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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.

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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. 

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Policy Briefs

Our perspective on critical Internet issues, including community networks, encryption, open Internet standards, Internet Exchange Points, and more.

Supporting the Creation and Scalability of Affordable Access Solutions: Understanding Community Networks in Africa

New perspectives on community networks in Africa ...

The Year that Was: A report on the initiatives and activities of the Asia-Pacific Bureau for 2016

This report was put together to outline some of the key initiatives undertaken by the Internet Society’s Asia-Pacific (APAC) Regional Bureau in 2016. While it is not meant to be ...

A Case Study in Local Content Hosting: Speed, Visits, and Cost of Access

The availability of locally relevant content is increasingly seen as a limiting factor in the widespread adoption of the Internet in emerging regions such as sub-Saharan Africa ...

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 how well each method works and what are the pitfalls and ...

1st Summit on Community Networks in Africa Report

Find out what happened during the First Summit on Community Networks Summit in Africa in this comprehensive report ...

Unleashing the Internet in the Caribbean: Removing Barriers to Connectivity and Stimulating Better Access in the Region

The nations of the Caribbean region are scattered over an area of more than 2.75 million square kilometres. These small, developing countries are mostly isolated from each other by the ...

Internet of Farmers Final Report

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Global Internet Report 2016

The Global Internet Report 2016 explores the topic of data breaches and offers solutions to help secure the data ecosystem ...

Policy Brief: Internet Invariants

As the Internet becomes an increasingly more pervasive and critical piece of infrastructure, we need to understand both the network’s challenges and opportunities if we want it to continue to ...

A policy framework for enabling Internet access

This policy framework provides recommendations policymakers can use to flexibly create their own Internet-enabling environment ...

The Internet Society Survey on Policy Issues in Asia-Pacific 2016

An initiative of the Asia-Pacific (APAC) Regional Bureau, the Internet Society Survey on Policy Issues in Asia-Pacific is an annual, cross-sectional study of the attitudes of Internet stakeholders toward topical ...

Promoting Content In Africa

The vision of the Internet Society is that the Internet is for everyone, everywhere, and to help achieve this aim we have conducted a number of studies of barriers to ...

Archives

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 ...

RSA Interview with Craig Spiezle

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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 ...

2016 Online Trust Audit Methodology Announced

Seattle, Washington - The Online Trust Alliance announced today the methodology for the forthcoming 2016 Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll. This marks the eighth consecutive year ...

The Mobile Solar Computer Classroom Project Interim Report

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Smart Homes and the Internet of Things

Issue Brief from Atlantic Council and I Am The Cavalry

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next step in the evolution of wireless networks, Big data, and connected devices, ...

Diffusing the IoT Time Bomb: Security and Privacy Trust Code of Conduct

MODERATOR:

Craig Spiezle
Executive Director & President
Online Trust Alliance
@otalliance  @craigspi

PANELISTS:

Harvey Anderson 
General Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer
AVG Technologies @AVGFree

Paul Plofchan
VP, Government & Regulatory Affairs,
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ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2016: Background Paper

This background paper on the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) is intended to provide the Internet Society community and interested parties with an outline of the objectives and key issues ...

Webinar: Creating Trust for the Internet of Things Overview

The webinar covers:
  • The origin and need for security and privacy in IoT devices
  • Elements of the IoT Trust Framework
  • Plans for implementation and certification

This webinar ...

WearFit: Security Design Analysis of a Wearable Fitness Tracker

IEEE Computer Society Center for Secure Design

Jacob West
Chief Architect, Security Products, NetSuite

Tadayoshi Kohno
Short-Dooley Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

David ...

A Vision for Trustworthy Advertising

Online advertising is an economic engine that fuels a wide range of services and sites society depends on. In our connected world, advertising supports a vast array of digital content ...

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.

See the Reports