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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.

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.

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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.

Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria

This study quantifies for the first time how IXPs enable Kenya and Nigeria to save millions in telecommunications costs and raise additional revenues in these countries while simultaneously speeding local data exchange, ...

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 Internet Society is a 501(c) 3 tax-exempt charitable organization formed under the District of Columbia Non-Profit Corporation Act ...

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)

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Open Inter-networking

The modern Internet features increasing complexity of uses and demand for bandwidth. The Internet Society believes that an Internet access environment characterized by choice and transparency, ...

Archives

Anti-Spoofing Whitepaper: Addressing the challenge of IP spoofing

Anti-Spoofing Report coverWhat is the issue with spoofed IP addresses?  What kind of attacks are made possible by spoofing?  What can be done to prevent or mitigate IP address spoofing?  We (Internet ...

Addressing the challenge of IP spoofing

Nowhere in the basic architecture of the Internet is there a more hideous flaw than in the lack of enforcement of simple SAV (source-address validation) by most gateways.   - Paul ...

Privacy and the Internet of Things: Event Report

As part of and in the lead up to the launch of our ‘Unleashing the Potential of the Internet for ASEAN Economies’ report, the APAC Bureau held several roundtable discussions ...

Interconnection and Traffic Exchange (ITE) Program Brochure

Available data shows that Africa imports more than 99% of the Internet content consumed creating an Internet Transit Deficit – where significantly less traffic is generated locally than accessed internationally ...

Internet Society Survey on Policy Issues in Asia-Pacific 2015

The second Asia-Pacific Regional Policy Survey takes an in-depth look at ongoing Internet policymaking trends with the objective of gaining further insights on the most important policy themes and areas ...

Local Internet Governance Events Toolkit

Organizing local Internet governance events ...

Global Internet Report 2015

The Global Internet Report 2015 focuses on mobile Internet and presents data that show trends, benefits and challenges as well as recommendations for future of the Internet ...

The Internet and Sustainable Development

An Internet Society contribution to the United Nations discussion on the Sustainable Development Goals and on the 10-year Review of the World Summit on the Information Society. June 2015
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Internet Development and Internet Governance in Africa

The global Internet continues to grow at an exponential rate, bringing with it new ways of transacting, communicating, learning, socializing, and transforming just about every aspect of daily life. But ...

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

The United Nations and its 10-year Review of the World Summit on the Information Society in December 2015
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was the first ...

Final Report Promoting Child Online Safety in Uganda

We undertook desk research on the current literature on child online safety including current policy and regulatory frameworks in Uganda. Findings from this research were integrated in the survey on ...

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