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.
2024 East Africa Submarine Cable Outage Report
Preemptive Monitoring in End-to-end Encrypted Services
ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2024: Background Paper
Internet Society’s Submission to the Consultation on the European Commission’s White Paper on “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”
Connectivity in the Middle East and North Africa
How Bill S-210 Puts Canadians’ Security and Privacy at Risk by Harming the Internet
Global Digital Compact: Zero Draft Matrix
The Internet Society has analyzed the Global Digital Compact Zero Draft with the aim of supporting efforts to identify areas of concern and opportunity, and proposals that may impact ...
2030 Strategy
2024 West Africa Submarine Cable Outage Report
Internet Impact Brief: Nepal’s Proposed National Internet Gateway
Client-Side Scanning
Community Network Do-It-Yourself Toolkit
Archives
2019 Online Trust Audit Methodology
The 2019 Online Trust Audit will represent the 11th independent analysis and benchmark report of the adoption of security standards and responsible privacy practices. This methodology reflects comments received in response to the Internet Society’s ...
Policy Brief: IoT Privacy for Policymakers
The Internet of Things, or IoT, is the latest wave of integration of technology into our lives and surroundings. This rapidly-spreading new generation of devices brings cameras, microphones, sensors, computing, ...
Are Organizations Ready for New Privacy Regulations?
2019 Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll
The 2019 Online Trust Audit & Honor Roll will represent the 11th independent analysis and benchmark report of the adoption of security standards and responsible privacy practices.
Sites are eligible to ...
2018 Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report
Policy Brief: Principles for Responsible Data Handling
More and more of our activities generate data which is collected and used in ways we don't see and can't control. While the data is used for ...
The State of User Privacy and Trust Online
Net Neutrality Experts’ Roundtable Series Process Report
Net Neutrality Legislation: A Framework for Consensus
Note: The Net Neutrality Principles do not represent the views of the Internet Society, nor any of its Chapters, members, partners or any of the participating organizations. Rather, they ...
Enhancing IoT Security: Final Outcomes and Recommendations Report
The Trust Opportunity: Exploring Consumer Attitudes to the Internet of Things
The economics of the security of consumer-grade IoT products and services
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.