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.

As dependence on digital services intensifies, the resilience and security of submarine cable systems are increasingly under scrutiny—particularly in light of recent outages in Africa, Tonga, and ...

Meet the members who currently serve on the Internet Society Board of Trustees, starting June 2025. From left to right, in the first row: Olufunke Baruwa, Sagarika Wickramasekera, Laura Thomson, Caleb ...

The Internet Society’s IoT Trust Framework identifies the core requirements manufacturers, service providers, distributors/purchasers and policymakers need to ...

People are what ultimately hold the Internet together. The Internet’s development has been based on voluntary cooperation and collaboration. Cooperation and collaboration remain the essential factors ...