The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 review process, which concluded in December 2025, reaffirmed the multistakeholder model, made the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) permanent, and ...

The European Commission has opened a public consultation on the Digital Networks Act (DNA)—a proposal that could fundamentally reshape how Internet traffic is exchanged in Europe and beyond. We’re ...

No challenge in today’s society stands in isolation. The interconnected nature of our world means that a global pandemic influences the world-wide supply chain. Climate change impacts economic growth ...

In 2025, we worked in 150 countries and territories, supporting community-centered connectivity initiatives, helping safeguard the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, scaling our ...

Internet Society Board of Trustees Meeting No. 194: The Board of Trustees invites the Internet Society community to join public sessions of its meetings as observers. These sessions enable attendees ...

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 ...

The Mid Career Fellowship lasts for seven months, from June to December. Fellows are responsible for getting all the necessary relevant permissions from their employers or educational institutions to ...

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How do you connect your network to the Internet? How do your users connect to your network? Now the fun stuff: what technology do you deploy? Unfortunately, there is no single technology solution that ...

Concerns about so-called “Fair Share” proposals have been central to debates in anticipation of the EU’s Digital Networks Act (DNA). These proposals, requiring large content and application providers ...

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 ...

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 ...