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 2024
Our roadmap for tackling the threats and challenges for today’s Internet as we look to grow and defend it for future generations.
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.
Case Study: Canada’s Online News Act Hurt Journalism, Competition, and the Internet
Traceability in End-to-End Encrypted Environments
The Olympics and the Internet: A Timeline
The way that we engage with the Olympic Games has changed significantly over time thanks to the Internet.
We went from the only real-time information about ...
2024 East Africa Submarine Cable Outage Report
Preemptive Monitoring in End-to-end Encrypted Services
ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2024: Background Paper
Internet Society’s Submission to the Consultation on the European Commission’s White Paper on “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”
Connectivity in the Middle East and North Africa
How Bill S-210 Puts Canadians’ Security and Privacy at Risk by Harming the Internet
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 ...
2030 Strategy
2024 West Africa Submarine Cable Outage Report
Archives
ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2024: Background Paper
IETF 119 Policy Roundtable
IETF 118 Policy Roundtable
How to Talk to Your Manager About Memory Safety
Encrypted DNS Factsheet
ITU Plenipotentiary 2022 Summary Issues – Matrix
Background Paper on ITU Plenipotentiary 2022
ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2020 Issues Matrix
The chart available in the PDF version of the document summarizes the proposed changes to Internet related WTSA-16 resolutions (including new resolutions) in an effort to identify issues, areas ...
Internet Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
Fact Sheet: Quantum Physics and Computing
Virtual Schooling
Policy Toolkit on IoT Security and Privacy
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.