Open Internet standards are the cornerstone of the Internet’s success, and the processes for creating them must remain open ...

This policy brief urges policymakers to adopt policies that eliminate shutdowns as a tool and to analyze and weigh the effects of restricting access.

In Nepal, a couple of days’ hiking away from the Everest Base Camp, the communities of Khunde and Khumjung were considered connected by normal standards. After all, if people in the villages hiked up ...

The Internet is for everyone. But for that to be a reality, we need more than to connect the unconnected: we need to make access meaningful. ...

The World Wide Web, known today simply as the Web, emerged as one of the major services to run on top of the Internet. By Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and a principal ...

So you’ve decided you want to start a new Internet Society Chapter – great news! Before you start, it’s a good idea to do some groundwork and think about what exactly you want to get done. From ...

Creating the conditions to expand Internet access requires decisive action from governments. How can they help close the global digital divide? By adopting new policy approaches that support community ...

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 ...

In 2014, African Union (AU) members adopted the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection (“the Convention”).[1] To facilitate implementation of the Convention, the ...

From Vision to Action - How the Technical Community Led the Way to Vision 80/20 In 2010, the Africa Internet technical community embraced an ambitious vision to have 80% of all Internet traffic ...

We get better answers to global questions when a range of experts and interests can meaningfully take part in the discussion. Many people talk about ‘the multistakeholder model’ as if it is a single ...