Community in Action 2025

Dear Community,

For over thirty years, you have advocated for an open, trustworthy, safe, and accessible Internet for everyone. Working locally, regionally, and globally your work helps ensure the Internet remains a force for good. Increasingly, that work is getting harder, which makes the notable accomplishments of 2025 all the more impressive.

Throughout 2025, you mobilized to defend against harmful government legislation and threats to undermine end-to-end encryption—a crucial component of a trustworthy Internet that helps keep our communications and information secure.

You built, expanded, and operated community networks to help close the digital divide by bringing the unconnected online. You supported the development of new Internet exchange points (IXPs) to improve Internet resilience and bring down connectivity prices for everyday Internet users. And, to ensure the Internet remains globally available, you contributed to technical and infrastructure policy development around the world.

When governments mandated Internet shutdowns you rallied to keep it on, and you, the community, campaigned for a more accessible and inclusive online experience for marginalized communities.

Recognizing that everyone deserves a safe Internet, you collaborated with us to co-create our new Safer Internet Initiative—the first time we’ve worked with our community to build an Internet Society program.

And, after taking Internet Society training courses, you are passing on your knowledge and building capacity throughout cities, towns, and villages to ensure that everyone can get online safely.

In the final weeks of 2025, our yearlong effort to save the multistakeholder model of Internet governance paid off. Governments came together at the United Nations and gave the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) a lasting mandate and reaffirmed the multistakeholder framework that has served the global Internet community for twenty years.

Thank you for everything you do to support the Internet we want.

This 2025 overview offers a small glimpse into just some of the ways you helped to promote and defend an Internet for everyone.”