The Internet is essential for our everyday lives. We use it to reach out to friends and family, pay our bills, study, work, watch our favorite movies, and do an infinite number of other things. But at ...

WSIS+20 is a process driven by the United Nations to determine the effectiveness of the actions taken to use Information and Communications Technologies to advance development since 2005. The result ...

The US connectivity landscape is changing. The past five years have shown tremendous growth in the work of bringing all Americans online. Programs have focused on increasing access through broadband ...

The Internet Society and the Internet Society Foundation operate as complementary parts of a single mission-driven ecosystem. Together, we align strategy, programs, and investment to advance our ...

The Internet we want is open, trustworthy, and safe. For everyone. But challenges remain: high costs, fragile infrastructure, shutdowns, and privacy threats. Our Action Plan is a roadmap for progress, ...

The Community Network and Infrastructures (CNI) SIG works alongside local communities and regional stakeholders to co-design community-centred networks and... The Petition period is now closed. The ...

Because the Internet impacts all of us, we work with organizations of all shapes and sizes to address the wide range of social, economic, and policy issues. Our organization members and partners ...

Why should I care about IPv6? IPv6 is the future of the Internet, and without it the Internet can no longer grow. We have been growing the commercial Internet for decades using IPv4 address space. At ...

The Internet is one of the most significant advances of our time. It brings benefits to every single person on the planet, whether they’re connected or not. It opens up new possibilities, expands our ...

Q1: What is the “New IP” proposal? Who is promoting it and supporting it? A: Originally, “New IP” was a set of proposals that were submitted by Huawei to the ITU-T’s Telecommunications Standardization ...

This is a discussion paper. This paper represents the Internet Society’s emerging opinion, but does not represent a final Internet Society position. Instead, we intend it as a means to gather ...

In September 2020, a draft European Commission report called “Technical solutions to detect child sexual abuse in end-to-end encrypted communications” was leaked. 1 The report gave an analysis of ...