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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 2025

Our 2025 Action Plan outlines our priorities in 2025, the first year of our 2030 Strategy.

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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.

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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.

2025 Action Plan

Our 2025 Action Plan outlines our priorities in 2025, which demonstrate our collective ambition to ensure that the Internet is a resource that enriches people’s lives and is a force ...

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 ...

Case Study: Canada’s Online News Act Hurt Journalism, Competition, and the Internet

Read about the impacts of Canada’s Online News Act on the Internet and how countries can develop laws to support the news industry sustainability without harming the Internet ...

Traceability in End-to-End Encrypted Environments

This brief explains how traceability impacts the security and privacy of end-to-end encrypted communications and highlights the technical flaws and security vulnerabilities it would introduce.  ...

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

Discover the impact of the submarine cable cuts on local connectivity in East Africa and the importance of resilience in maintaining service levels ...

Preemptive Monitoring in End-to-end Encrypted Services

Technical measures to screen messages in end-to-end encrypted systems introduce systemic risk for both service providers and users ...

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 ...

Internet Society’s Submission to the Consultation on the European Commission’s White Paper on “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”

We provided feedback in response 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

This report investigates the developments of broadband infrastructure and Internet connectivity in the Middle East and North Africa until 2021 ...

How Bill S-210 Puts Canadians’ Security and Privacy at Risk by Harming the Internet

Canadian Bill S-210 includes requirements that could disrupt essential functions of the Internet and ultimately harm Canadians’ security and privacy ...

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 ...

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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 ...

IETF 119 Policy Roundtable

On 18 April 2024, the Internet Society in collaboration with the IAB held a roundtable with policy makers and selected IETF leadership ...

IETF 118 Policy Roundtable

On Monday, 6 November 2023, the Internet Society organized an invite-only roundtable for policymakers and selected IETF leadership.   ...

How to Talk to Your Manager About Memory Safety

Learn about memory safety, memory-safe languages, common bugs and vulnerabilities, and the reasons for memory safe language adoption and use ...

Encrypted DNS Factsheet

The domain name system (DNS) makes the Internet easier for humans to navigate as well as for services online to be highly resilient ...

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 ...

Background Paper on ITU Plenipotentiary 2022

Read about the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 and our perspectives on some of the main issues which may be discussed ...

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

The Internet is a ‘network of networks’ made up of tens of thousands of networks that interconnect and route traffic efficiently between end points. While the interconnections and routing of ...

Fact Sheet: Quantum Physics and Computing

A paper explaining how quantum computing and encryption are related ...

Virtual Schooling

Take a look through our back-to-school checklist that aims to help you, as a parent or guardian, make sure your child stays safe while learning online ...

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