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.
Global Internet Report 2015
The Internet and Sustainable Development
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Internet Development and Internet Governance in Africa
Internet Society Position Paper On The WSIS+10 Review
The WSIS+10 Review Process marks the ten-year milestone since the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The WSIS was a two-phase summit (2003-2005), which defined the ...
Understanding the WSIS+10 Review Process
4th Wireless for Communities & Open Spectrum Summit Report
Internet Governance Survey 2015
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
Internet Society positions on the renewal of IGF Mandate and the WSIS 2015 Review
ITU Plenipotentiary 2014 – Outcomes
Archives
2014 Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll
The 2014 Online Trust Audit includes a composite analysis focusing on three major categories; a company’s data protection, security and privacy practices, including over two-dozen criteria. Sites were eligible to ...
The Internet Society Survey on Policy Issues in Asia-Pacific 2014
Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)
Case Study: IPv6 At The U.S. Census Bureau
Case Study: IPv6 at Cisco
Cisco Systems initially began investigating IPv6 in 2002, but accelerated deploying IPv6 in 2010. They developed a two part strategy that split the project into deploying IPv6 for Cisco's web ...Case Study: Facebook Moving To An IPv6-Only Internal Network
Case Study: Mexico’s AXTEL Outlines Phases of IPv6 Deployment and Recommendations
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 ...
Case Study: How Romania’s RCS&RDS Deployed IPv6
RCS & RDS is one of the most important telecom operators in the region, providing ...
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.