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.
WTDC 2014: ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference Background Information
The Value of Openness for a Sustainable Internet
The Internet has changed the world. It has revolutionized the way individuals communicate and collaborate, the way entrepreneurs and corporations do business and the way governments develop policy and ...
Internet Society Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Governance Report and Summary of the Results. October 2013
ITU Plenipotentiary 14 Conference Background Paper
Internet Society Response to the Questionnaire of the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation
Understanding Security and Resilience of the Internet
Average price per GB of traffic in Sub-Saharan Africa for Internet access
Lower prices for Internet access are Important because they:
- are evidence of a more competitive market that is relatively free of bottlenecks
- can generate a virtuous circle by attracting ...
A report on a micro survey regarding online privacy and personal data
Cybersecurity: Searching for a Common Understanding
The New PII: Privacy-Impacting Information
Archives
Global Internet User Survey Infographic
Summary of activities undertaken by the Internet Society related to the implementation of the targets, recommendations, and commitments of the World Summit on the Information Society
The Internet Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992. It is the world’s trusted independent source of leadership for Internet policy, technology standards and future development. Based on its ...
Report on Routing Resiliency Measurements Workshop
ENISA Report: Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem
Seeking to understand routing resiliency and routing security? In this April 2011 report, "Inter-X: Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem ", the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) provides ...
Human Rights and Internet Protocols: Comparing Processes and Principles
Since its inception, the Internet has been a force for innovation and positive development – in our societies, in our politics, and in our economies. It has also been a ...
Combatting Botnets Through User Notification Across the Ecosystem
Botnets represent a complex problem impacting users, businesses and governments worldwide. Their impact ranges from mere annoyance to significant productivity losses. They are responsible for the distribution of billions of ...
A Summary Report: Promoting the Use of Internet Exchange Points
Hash-slinger – a tool for creating TLSA records for the DANE protocol
Cisco’s 6Lab Statistics Site
Cisco maintains a comprehensive IPv6 statistics site that is updated daily at:
As Alain Fiocco wrote in a very detailed blog post announcing the 6lab statistics site, ...
The Modern Paradigm for Standards
Internet and Human Rights: The Challenge of Empowered Communities
Shirin Ebadi reminds us of the power of ideas and shows how the free flow of information can give hope to people in their fight for a better life ...
Some Perspectives on Cybersecurity 2012
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.