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.
2023 Year in Review
The Year in Review shows the steps we took in 2023 to ensure the Internet is for everyone. Learn about the positive difference we made for the Internet.
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.
Internet Impact Brief: Revised Directive on Security of Network and Information (NIS2) – Presidency Compromise Proposal September 2021
Reimagining the Summit on Community Networks in Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Security Through Encryption and Despite Encryption: An (un)Achievable Outcome?
Internet Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
Moving Toward an Interconnected Africa: The 80/20 Initiative
In 2010, the Africa Internet technical community embraced an ambitious vision to have 80% of all Internet traffic locally accessible with only 20% being sourced internationally by 2020.
...Effective IXP strategies for the Asia-Pacific
The Economic Impact of Laws that Weaken Encryption
Editor's note: The full report and the extracted executive summary are available in pdf format in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Japanese.
- Full report: English ...
Mauritius IGF and Internet Society Response to Mauritius ICTA Consultation Paper
Encryption unlocks the benefits of a thriving, trustworthy Internet
Guide to Federal Broadband Funding Opportunities in the U.S.
MANRS Community Report 2020
How to Make Sure Section 230 Reforms Don’t Harm the Foundation of the Internet
Author: Katie Watson Jordan
We called it in 2020, and barely two months into the new year the increasing trend in the United States to propose reforms to Section 230 ...
Archives
Best Practices: Cyber Incident Response Readiness
- Complete risk assessments for executive review, operational process and third-party vendors
- Review security best practices and validate your organization’s adoption or reasoning for not adopting
- Audit your data and ...
2017 Email Marketing & Unsubscribe Audit
The 2017 Audit found that the vast majority of audited online retailers have embraced unsubscribe best practices, going beyond mere compliance, and have shown improvement since 2014 despite expanded and ...
Issue Paper, Asia-Pacific Bureau: Internet of Things
Issue Paper, Asia-Pacific Bureau: Digital Safety of Children and Youth
Issue Paper, Asia-Pacific Bureau: Local and Localised Content
Promoting the African Internet Economy
Author: Michael Kende
Michael Kende is a Senior Fellow at the Internet Society. Many thanks to Dawit Bekele for his leadership and vision, and to Sally Wentworth, Konstantinos Komaitis, Jane ...
Internet Access and Education
Tusheti Case Study
Timeline & History of the Internet in Asia and the Pacific
Internet Society contribution to WTDC 2017
Best Practices: Botnets
A "bot" or "botnet" is a program installed on a system to enable that system to automatically (or semi-automatically) perform a task or set of tasks typically under the command ...
Best Practice: Extended Validation Certificates (EVSSL)
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.