Internet and mobile technology affects almost every facet of our day-to-day lives and is part of almost every business model. As technology has ...
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.
Collaborating to Eliminate Spam and Nuisance Communications
This report summarizes a workshop held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and the International Institute of Communications (ICC) in October 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand, that brought together ...
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 ...
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 ...
Flow of information of the follow-up of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
- 6 January 2017 -
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 ...State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016
This report provides a snapshot of the state of deployment of DNSSEC as of the end of 2016. Please download the full report to view all of the information, charts and conclusions ...
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 ...
Global Internet Report 2016
The Global Internet Report 2016 explores the topic of data breaches and offers solutions to help secure the data ecosystem ...
ITU WTSA 2016 Outcomes: An Internet Society Perspective
The ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2016 (WTSA-16) was a highly charged meeting with a significant number of controversial contributions that made for quite a productive conference ...
WTSA 2016 Matrix of Resolutions
This chart summarizes the proposed changes to Internet related WTSA-12 resolutions (including new resolutions) in an effort to identify issues, areas of concern, organizations impacted, etc., on a best-efforts basis. Suggestions to ...
Archives
Toward Collaborative Internet Development
The Internet Society’s Views on the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference ...
2014 Email Unsubscribe Report & Audit
Email is a vibrant channel for marketers to connect with consumers on many fronts providing an important value exchange between consumers and industry. Marketing emails can range from promotional offers ...
The Open Internet: What it is, and how to avoid mistaking it for something else
It is not by chance that we have enjoyed the extraordinary success of the Internet as a global engine of economic, political, cultural, and social progress. Fundamental principles embedded in ...
2014 Email Integrity Audit
Best Practices to Enhance Trust & Fight Malicious & Deceptive Email ...
Key Concepts on Spam
Spam terms and other things you need to know about spam ...
The History of Spam
The growth of unsolicited e-mail imposes increasing costs on networks and causes considerable aggravation on the part of e-mail recipients. The history of spam is one that is closely tied ...
What Is Spam
The classic definition of spam is unsolicited bulk messages, that is, messages sent to multiple recipients who did not ask for them ...
Have you chosen an Identity Provider lately?
This white paper looks at some of the issues concerning Identity Providers (IDPs), the extent to which you, as a consumer/citizen, can chose your IDP, and the implications of that ...
STARTTLS Everywhere
The Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) has launched the STARTTLS Everywhere project in an effort to encrypt more communication between Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP) Message Transfer Agents(MTAs). STARTTLS ...
VPS Providers Supporting IPv6
With Regional Internet Registries(RIRs) quickly running out of IPv4 addresses, more and more cloud computing providers are offering Virtual Private Servers(VPS) for IPv6. The purpose of this resource page ...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.