ISOC@ events offer an opportunity for Internet Society members to connect with peers, chapter representatives, organization member representatives, members of the Board of Trustees, Internet Society ...

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 ...

People who want to rewrite net neutrality laws are arguing that ‘specialized services’ require near-zero latency and rock-solid reliability. Specialized services go beyond general Internet access to ...

Earlier this year, the United Kingdom government ordered Apple to provide access to encrypted data in the company’s cloud storage service, iCloud. In response, Apple removed its Advanced Data ...

About 2.6 billion people are still offline. That’s nearly one-third of the global population without access to a tool that enables people to access education, find work, run businesses, connect with ...

With the near-constant stream of advertisements, sponsored content, and brand deals we see every day online, it can start to feel like the Internet is all about profit. While it is true that a lot of ...

This joint report by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Society (ISOC) offers the first substantive look at the global impact of the Internet Governance ...

The Internet has become an indispensable element of modern life, fostering economic development, social interaction, and access to information. In Kazakhstan, a nation positioned at the crossroads of ...

Peering is a fundamental part of how the Internet works. It allows networks to exchange traffic directly, reducing reliance on intermediaries. This improves performance, lowers costs, and increases ...

Liking, messaging, clicking, posting—most of us do these things online without thinking twice. But whether we know it or not, our online activities contribute to an ever-growing digital portrait of ...

In February 2021, the Government of India introduced the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules (or IT Rules 2021) under the parent legislation, the ...

This is the final version of this background paper, published on 11 October 2024, along with the ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2024 Issues Matrix. This background paper on the ...