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 2023
Our roadmap for tackling the threats and challenges for today’s Internet as we look to grow and strengthen it for future generations.
Impact Report 2021
As the world is shifting, we need the Internet more than ever. Learn what the Internet Society is doing to help ensure no one is left behind.
Internet Impact Briefs
Shorter reports that analyze how different policies or new technologies may affect what the Internet needs to exist and thrive.
Global Internet Report (GIR)
From trust to consolidation, access to sustainability, a deep look at the forces shaping our digital future.
Policy Briefs
Our perspective on critical Internet issues, including community networks, encryption, open Internet standards, Internet Exchange Points, and more.
Archives
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 ...
Toward Collaborative Internet Development
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 ...
Organization Reports
On annual basis, we publish annual reports (an Action Plan and Impact Report), as well as financial reports, annual financial statements, and Form 990s.