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

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 ...

Realizing the vision of an Internet for everyone also hinges on how the Internet is governed. The Internet is developed, operated, managed, and governed openly and collaboratively by multiple ...

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 ...

The Internet Society at IGF 2025 in Norway (The Who, What, When, Where, and Why) The Internet Society will be attending IGF 2025 in Norway. Find out what we'll be doing, why, and where ...

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 ...

Find out how the language proposed in the first revision of the WSIS+20 Zero Draft aligns with our vision of an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet for everyone.

A series of enacted and proposed revisions to South Korea’s Telecommunications Business Act (TBA) spell out new interconnection rules for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Value-Added Telecom ...

The Internet as we know it hinges on the outcome of an upcoming United States Supreme Court case you may not have heard of. In the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which was heard by the Supreme Court this ...