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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.

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.

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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.

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 ...

Indian IETF Capacity Building Phase II – Interim Report

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society (ISOC) and Internet Architecture Board (IAB) are important Internet governance organisations concerned with the technical aspects of the Internet. Countries, which have representation ...

Internet@MySchool – Interim Report

Due to poverty and political instability, Yemen is one of the least connected countries in the Middle East. It’s a major problem, especially in a country where over 40% of ...

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 ...

Internet Radio for People with Visual Impairments – Final Report

Internet Radio for People with Visual Impairments - Final Report ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Flow of information of the follow-up of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

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Since the Tunis Summit, the Internet Society has been actively involved in supporting the implementation of the targets, recommendations and commitments of the WSIS as ...

Beyond the Net – Impact Report 2015

The Internet Society brings technical expertise and policy issues and discussions to life through the work of its local communities on the ground. We seek to improve the quality of ...

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The Internet of Things (IoT): An Overview

On 15 October 2015 the Internet Society published this 50-page whitepaper providing an overview of the IoT and exploring related issues and challenges. You may download the complete document ...

WSIS+10 Matrix

What are the positions of world governments on the 10-year Review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10)?

As preparation for the December 2015 high-level meetings at ...

IoT Comments to Draft Trust Framework

The following is a summary of public responses to the request for comments (RFC) for the draft IoT Trust Framework.  Note in addition to the submissions listed below, OTA has received ...

2016 Presidential Candidates Online Trust Audit

The report evaluates the privacy, security and consumer protection practices of the top presidential candidates’ websites ...

IoT Wearables – Deep Dive Into Device Security Practices

Guest Speaker:
Daniel Miessler
Director, IOActive

Contributing to a more trustworthy internet, helping to protect our data, businesses and critical infrastructure.

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A Short Guide to IP Addressing

A short guide to IP addressing ...

Anti-Spoofing Whitepaper: Addressing the challenge of IP spoofing

Anti-Spoofing Report coverWhat is the issue with spoofed IP addresses?  What kind of attacks are made possible by spoofing?  What can be done to prevent or mitigate IP address spoofing?  We (Internet ...

Addressing the challenge of IP spoofing

Nowhere in the basic architecture of the Internet is there a more hideous flaw than in the lack of enforcement of simple SAV (source-address validation) by most gateways.   - Paul ...

Privacy and the Internet of Things: Event Report

As part of and in the lead up to the launch of our ‘Unleashing the Potential of the Internet for ASEAN Economies’ report, the APAC Bureau held several roundtable discussions ...

Interconnection and Traffic Exchange (ITE) Program Brochure

Available data shows that Africa imports more than 99% of the Internet content consumed creating an Internet Transit Deficit – where significantly less traffic is generated locally than accessed internationally ...

Internet Society Survey on Policy Issues in Asia-Pacific 2015

The second Asia-Pacific Regional Policy Survey takes an in-depth look at ongoing Internet policymaking trends with the objective of gaining further insights on the most important policy themes and areas ...

Local Internet Governance Events Toolkit

Organizing local Internet governance events ...

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.