This report examines the impact of current and proposed policies and regulations on emerging technologies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

While often well-intentioned, policies requiring age checks create risks for people’s privacy, security, and access to an open Internet.

This brief is the updated version of Unleashing Community Networks: Innovative Licensing Approaches, published on 14 May 2018. Find the previous version on the Web Archive. Executive Summary Community ...

This week is a pivotal one for the future of the Internet. National governments will convene at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to negotiate who will shape our digital future and how.

Three women sit near a pile of carob fruits, wearing masks and hair nets. They pick a few of them out, separating those they are about to grind into carob flour, filling large white bags that take ...

Community networks were not always accepted by the mainstream Internet governance ecosystem. But they have helped connect Haiti and beyond.

Los estándares abiertos son la piedra angular del éxito de Internet y los procesos para crearlos deben permanecer abiertos a una amplia participación.

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is a technology that is already impacting how users interact with, and are affected by the Internet. In the near future, its impact is likely to only continue to grow. AI has ...

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. The past thirty years ...