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Policy Strategies for Closing the Digital Divide

Explore tips, resources, and success stories to create inclusive Internet policies that empower local connectivity solutions.

Delivering on a Five-Year Strategy

This report is a snapshot of how we worked with our global community to overcome major challenges and exceed...

Media Highlights (Q4 2024)

Q4 media highlights include the Internet Society quoted in articles in Al Jazeera on Internet firewalls, Network World on...

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...

2025 Action Plan

Our 2025 Action Plan outlines our priorities in 2025, which demonstrate our collective ambition to ensure that the Internet...

Global Encryption Day Statement

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...

Media Highlights (Q3 2024)

Media coverage of the Internet Society in Q3 included an article about Internet shutdowns in Rest of World. We...

The Olympics and the Internet: A Timeline

The Olympics and the Internet are both global connectors. Learn about how the Internet evolved the way we interact...

Encryption Is a Preventative Tool that Protects Children

Encryption is one of the best tools we have to help keep children safe online. Child safety and encryption...

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...