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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.

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Action Plan 2026

From our strategic vision to specific goals, read about how we’ll be advancing our five-year strategy in the coming year.

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.

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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. 

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Policy Briefs

Our perspective on critical Internet issues, including community networks, encryption, open Internet standards, Internet Exchange Points, and more.

Policy Brief: Internet Governance

This policy brief explores the key considerations, challenges, and provides guiding principles of multistakeholder Internet governance of openness, inclusiveness, transparency, collaboration, shared responsibility, accountability, consensus-driven and pragmatic evidence-based approaches.  ...

WSIS+20 Revision 1 (Rev.1) Matrix – Internet Society Analysis

This document represents our ongoing efforts to identify how the language proposed in the first revision of the WSIS+20 Zero Draft aligns with the vision of an open, globally connected, ...

World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25) Issues Matrix

This chart summarizes and systematizes the proposed changes to Internet-related WTDC-22 resolutions ...

ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25) Background Paper

This background paper is intended to provide the Internet Society community and interested parties with a general overview of the ITU WTDC-25 and our perspectives on some of the main ...

WSIS+20 Zero Draft Matrix – Internet Society Analysis

The Internet Society welcomes the opportunity to submit our comments on the WSIS+20 Zero Draft. We commend the co-facilitators' leadership and openness in facilitating stakeholders’ participation in the WSIS+20 ...

Internet Governance and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

Learn about Internet governance, the multistakeholder approach, and how they are practiced through WSIS and IGF ...

A Pivotal Moment for Global Digital Cooperation

The Internet’s future relies on protecting its core principles, strong multistakeholder collaboration, and implementing the WSIS Action Lines ...

Footprints of 20 Years of the Internet Governance Forum

A joint report by ICANN and the Internet Society details how the Internet Governance Forum has supported a stable and secure Internet, and why that model is now under strain ...

ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2024 Matrix

It summarizes the changes to Internet-related resolutions (including new resolutions) to identify issues, areas of concern, organizations impacted, and so forth on a best-efforts basis ...

ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2024: Background Paper

This draft background paper is intended to provide the Internet Society community and interested parties with an outline of the objectives and key issues to be addressed at the World ...

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 ...

ITU Plenipotentiary 2022 Summary Issues – Matrix

We have analyzed proposals to the ITU Plenipotentiary 2022 (PP22) conference that may impact the future development of the Internet ...

Archives

Policy Brief: Internet Governance

This policy brief explores the key considerations, challenges, and provides guiding principles of multistakeholder Internet governance of openness, inclusiveness, transparency, collaboration, shared responsibility, accountability, consensus-driven and pragmatic evidence-based approaches.  ...

WSIS+20 Revision 1 (Rev.1) Matrix – Internet Society Analysis

This document represents our ongoing efforts to identify how the language proposed in the first revision of the WSIS+20 Zero Draft aligns with the vision of an open, globally connected, ...

World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25) Issues Matrix

This chart summarizes and systematizes the proposed changes to Internet-related WTDC-22 resolutions ...

ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25) Background Paper

This background paper is intended to provide the Internet Society community and interested parties with a general overview of the ITU WTDC-25 and our perspectives on some of the main ...

WSIS+20 Zero Draft Matrix – Internet Society Analysis

The Internet Society welcomes the opportunity to submit our comments on the WSIS+20 Zero Draft. We commend the co-facilitators' leadership and openness in facilitating stakeholders’ participation in the WSIS+20 ...

Internet Governance and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

Learn about Internet governance, the multistakeholder approach, and how they are practiced through WSIS and IGF ...

A Pivotal Moment for Global Digital Cooperation

The Internet’s future relies on protecting its core principles, strong multistakeholder collaboration, and implementing the WSIS Action Lines ...

Footprints of 20 Years of the Internet Governance Forum

A joint report by ICANN and the Internet Society details how the Internet Governance Forum has supported a stable and secure Internet, and why that model is now under strain ...

ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2024 Matrix

It summarizes the changes to Internet-related resolutions (including new resolutions) to identify issues, areas of concern, organizations impacted, and so forth on a best-efforts basis ...

ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2024: Background Paper

This draft background paper is intended to provide the Internet Society community and interested parties with an outline of the objectives and key issues to be addressed at the World ...

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 ...

ITU Plenipotentiary 2022 Summary Issues – Matrix

We have analyzed proposals to the ITU Plenipotentiary 2022 (PP22) conference that may impact the future development of the Internet ...

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.

See the Reports

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