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.
Internet Society Submission to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of the Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion Regarding the Use of Encryption and Anonymity in Digital Communications
The Internet Society welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the report that will be prepared by the Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of the right ...
Barefoot & Connected: Socio-behavioural impact of wireless broadband & digital intervention in a village campus
Connecting Remote Communities: Wireless for Communities in India
Where Does the Internet Go Next?
The growth of human society has been driven by the development of three key technologies: writing, printing and now the Internet.
From the early scribblings of animals and rituals on ...
Global Internet Report 2014
The Global Internet Report is the first in a series meant to celebrate the progress of the Internet, highlight trends, and illustrate the principles that will continue to sustain ...
The Internet Exchange Point Toolkit & Best Practices Guide
The benefits of maximising local traffic via independent Internet exchange points (IXPs) is well-recognised as essential for facilitating a robust domestic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. From a public ...
Wireless for Communities: A Case Book
Connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Internet Exchange Points
A Summary Report: Promoting the Use of Internet Exchange Points
Internet Accessibility: Internet Use by Persons with Disabilities: Moving Forwards
Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria
International Chapter Toolkit: Tools for Mobilizing Volunteers
Introduction
If you are like many Internet Society Chapter leaders, you are thinking about the best ways to mobilize your members into an effective team that can deliver successful programmes ...
Archives
IPv6 For Network Operators Book (ISOC Argentina Chapter)
The ISOC Argentina Chapter recently published a new book in Spanish focused on IPv6 for network operators. You can download the book for free in PDF form here: IPv6 para ...Internet Society Submission to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of the Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion Regarding the Use of Encryption and Anonymity in Digital Communications
The Internet Society welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the report that will be prepared by the Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of the right ...
Best Practices: Security & Privacy for Enterprises
OTA recommends that all organizations implement the following best practices:
Attacks against user credentials, including brute force, sniffing, host-based access and theft of password databases, remain very strong attack vectors ...
Promoting Local Content Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem
In many developing countries and emerging regions the vast majority of content accessed by local users is hosted overseas. This content must traverse international links that are often expensive and ...
Barefoot & Connected: Socio-behavioural impact of wireless broadband & digital intervention in a village campus
Routing Resiliency Survey Report
Video: IPv6 and Embedded Systems
Courseware: IPv6 in Networking Essentials
Internet Society positions on the renewal of IGF Mandate and the WSIS 2015 Review
ITU Plenipotentiary 2014 – Outcomes
The Rise of the Digital Citizen Stakeholder : Re-balancing Multistakeholder Governance
The Rise of the Digital Citizen-Stakeholder: Re-balancing Multistakeholder Governance is the paper written by Andrew Power.
The principle feature in the evolution of the internet has been its ever growing ...
DNSSEC Fact Sheet
Looking for a quick way to explain DNSSEC to people? Would you like a DNSSEC handout you could print out and distribute at an event? Need something to send to ...
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.