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.
Policy Strategies for Closing the Digital Divide
Internet Impact Brief: Proposals to Regulate Digital Platforms In Brazil, Potential Impacts in the Internet
Delivering on a Five-Year Strategy
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024 Consultation Response to the Home Office
A Policy Framework for Internet Intermediaries and Content
Intermediary functions are crucial to the Internet’s existence. This paper provides a framework for understanding Internet intermediary functions and developing policy concerning responsibility for online content without harming individuals’ ...
2025 Action Plan
ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2024 Matrix
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
Archives
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
Policy Toolkit on IoT Security and Privacy
ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2020: Background Paper
Internet Infrastructure Security Guidelines for the Arab States
The Road to Deployment: Network Time Security
Policy Brief: Internet Shutdowns
Internet Society Position on Internet Shutdowns
A Multi-Stakeholder Model in ICT Policymaking
The multistakeholder model, an established approach for Internet governance, lends itself to ideal use in policymaking for the digital era--an environment that is increasingly made up of various actors that ...
Security Factsheet: Keeping Your Workplace Safe Online
Security Factsheet: Why Should Municipalities Make Network and Data Security a Priority?
Online Trust Audit – 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaigns
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.