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.
Global Internet Report 2014
The Global Internet Report is the first in a series meant to celebrate the progress of the Internet, highlight trends, and illustrate the principles that will continue to sustain ...
The Internet Exchange Point Toolkit & Best Practices Guide
The benefits of maximising local traffic via independent Internet exchange points (IXPs) is well-recognised as essential for facilitating a robust domestic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. From a public ...
Wireless for Communities: A Case Book
Connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Internet Exchange Points
A Summary Report: Promoting the Use of Internet Exchange Points
Internet Accessibility: Internet Use by Persons with Disabilities: Moving Forwards
Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria
International Chapter Toolkit: Tools for Mobilizing Volunteers
Introduction
If you are like many Internet Society Chapter leaders, you are thinking about the best ways to mobilize your members into an effective team that can deliver successful programmes ...The Internet Society is a U.S. 501(c)3 tax-exempt charitable organization
The Relationship Between Local Content, Internet Development, and Access Prices
Report from the Internet Society, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
1. Societies ...
Open Inter-networking
Archives
The Internet and Sustainable Development
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Internet Development and Internet Governance in Africa
Internet Society Position Paper On The WSIS+10 Review
The WSIS+10 Review Process marks the ten-year milestone since the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The WSIS was a two-phase summit (2003-2005), which defined the ...
Understanding the WSIS+10 Review Process
Final Report Promoting Child Online Safety in Uganda
Unleashing the Potential of the Internet for ASEAN Economies – Executive Summary
Collaborative Security: An approach to tackling Internet Security issues
People are what ultimately hold the Internet together. The Internet’s development has been based ...
Internet Governance Survey 2015
Unleashing the Potential of the Internet for ASEAN Economies
Permissionless Innovation, Cornerstone of a Successful Internet
In March 2015, former Internet Society Board of Trustee and 2014 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Prof. dr. Erik Huizer wrote an essay at the request of a Dutch ...
IPV6 Matrix
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.