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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.

World Telecommunications Development Conference 2022 Background Paper

This document will help you understand the WTDC's role, its importance, and major opportunities of engagement ...

World Telecommunication Development Conference 2022 Issues Matrix

The matrix summarizes the proposed changes to Internet-related WTDC-17 resolutions (including new resolutions) ...

How To Protect the Internet from Becoming the Splinternet

The splinternet is the idea that the open, globally connected Internet we all use splinters into a collection of isolated networks controlled by governments or corporations ...

Internet Impact Brief: South Korea’s Interconnection Rules

Read how a series of enacted and proposed revisions of Telecommunications Business Act in South Korea affect further Internet development ...

Community Network Readiness Assessment Handbook

A handbook to guide communities through assessing whether they will benefit from building a community network, as well as information on planning and building the network ...

Quick Analysis – The Impact of Efforts to Disconnect Russia from the Internet

Read how some of the proposals and actions to disconnect Russia impact the global Internet ...

Internet Impact Brief: Impact of Ukraine’s Requests to Block Russia’s Access to the Internet

Learn how politically motivated actions to prevent people from accessing the global Internet would cause significant harm to the open, globally connected, secure and trustworthy Internet ...

Internet Impact Brief: How Refusing Russian Networks Will Impact the Internet

Read how actions to block networks from accessing the global Internet cause significant harm what the Internet needs to exist and thrive, and the ability of people to use it ...

Path to 2025

A strategy that advances our enduring vision: The Internet is for everyone ...

Internet Impact Brief: Bangladesh: Regulation for Digital, Social Media and OTT Platforms, 2021

Finds that the provisions outlined in the draft regulation could have serious repercussions on the usefulness of the Internet for Bangladesh and its people ...

Impact of COVID-19 on the Internet Ecosystem in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Pakistan

Internet performance was negatively affected in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Pakistan during the lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Huawei’s “New IP” Proposal – Frequently Asked Questions

What is "New IP" Proposal, who is promoting and supporting it, what are the key concerns about it and other questions and answers about this proposal ...

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Internet of Things (IoT) Trust Framework v2.5

The IoT Trust Framework® includes a set of strategic principles necessary to help secure IoT devices and their data when shipped and throughout their entire life-cycle ...

Personal Data Protection Guidelines for Africa

A joint initiative of the Internet Society and the Commission of the African Union ...

Internet Society Background Paper on ITU Plenipotentiary 2018

This background paper provides a general overview of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference and our perspectives on some of the main issues which may be discussed ...

IoT Security for Policymakers

“Cybersecurity will be the most pressing challenge of the next decade, and IoT will play a critical role in it.” Internet Society 2017 Global Internet Report
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Best Practices: Enterprise IoT Security Checklist

The Internet of Things (IoT) has found its way into all aspects of our lives. In particular, consumer IoT devices such as smart TVs, thermostats, smart speakers, fitness trackers and ...

Do Blockchains Have Anything to Offer Identity?

This paper is intended for information technology staff and management, and any others working on or with Identity and access management (IAM) technologies, and who are curious about blockchain and ...

Report from the Field: Post-Hurricane Connectivity in the Caribbean

We ask our community to join with us to both #ReconnectTheCaribbean, and also to work to ensure the networks are resilient to withstand the storms that may hit in 2018, ...

2017 Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report

This year marks the Online Trust Alliance’s tenth annual publication related to cyber incidents and breach readiness. Now an initiative of the Internet Society, OTA reviews cyber incident and breach ...

Best Practices: Cyber Incident Response Readiness

  • Complete risk assessments for executive review, operational process and third-party vendors
  • Review security best practices and validate your organization’s adoption or reasoning for not adopting
  • Audit your data and ...

2017 Email Marketing & Unsubscribe Audit

The 2017 Audit found that the vast majority of audited online retailers have embraced unsubscribe best practices, going beyond mere compliance, and have shown improvement since 2014 despite expanded and ...

Issue Paper, Asia-Pacific Bureau: Internet of Things

Building on the framework and concepts presented in the Internet Society Policy Brief on the Internet of Things, this issues paper focuses on concerns and good practices ...

Issue Paper, Asia-Pacific Bureau: Digital Safety of Children and Youth

This issues paper builds on two Internet Society reports, “Children and the Internet” and “Mapping Online Child Safety in Asia-Pacific” to discuss the challenges and opportunities related to the digital ...

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