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 2022
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 2020
Some of our important work in 2020, highlighting how our community has worked together to to build, promote and defend the Internet.
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.
Intermediary Liability Survey: Latin America
This report is a product of a crowdsourcing exercise designed to map current existing intermediary liability regimes in Latin American countries. Such an exercise was conducted with the full support ...
Internet Way of Networking Use Case: Intermediary Liability
Internet Way of Networking Use Case: Interconnection and Routing
The Internet Way of Networking: Defining the critical properties of the Internet
Internet Impact Assessment Toolkit: Introduction
The Impact of Internet Access in Indigenous Communities in Canada and the United States
Statement to U.S. Congress Hearing on “Addressing the Urgent Needs of Our Tribal Communities”
Anchoring the African Internet Ecosystem
Explainer: What is Eighty For Africa?
Like buying your food locally, and reducing how much you fly, getting your digital content locally also reduces the strain on the system. It allows the Internet to function more ...
Explainer: What is an Internet Exchange Point (IXP)?
An IXP is essential technical infrastructure where networks come together to connect and exchange Internet traffic.
Some of the types of networks that connect to exchange traffic are: Internet service ...
Explainer: What is Internet Peering?
In many parts of the world, connecting to the Internet is slow and expensive. Peering – exchanging traffic between networks – can help address this.
When you ...
Fact Sheet: Internet Way of Networking
Archives
Highlights from ISOC Africa – July 2018
Highlights from ISOC Africa – June 2018
Top Tips for Consumers: Internet of Things Security and Privacy
Internet Crossing Borders: Boosting the Internet in Landlocked Developing Countries
State of IPv6 Deployment 2018
European Regional Bureau Newsletter – 26 May – 1 Jun 2018
- The European Investment Bank has signed a €250m loan agreement with Swedish telecoms company Ericsson as part of the Juncker Plan to support ...
Beyond the Net Funding Newsletter – May 2018
Chapterthon Digital Schools! | Winner of WSIS Prize 2018
Chapterthon 2017 has been awarded by ITU as winner of the WSIS Prize 2018 for International and Regional Cooperation. 30 Chapters from all ...Policy Development Process at the Internet Society
European Regional Bureau Newsletter – 12 May – 18 May 2018
- On May 14, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published a new report on “Financing a Forward-Looking Internet for All”. ...
Internet of Things (IoT) Trust Framework v2.5
European Regional Bureau Newsletter – 5 May – 11 May 2018
- The UK-based telecoms operator has signed a deal taking-over Liberty Global’s cable networks in Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary.
- The ...
Personal Data Protection Guidelines for Africa
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.