24 Fellows from 20 countries across Africa traveled to Kigali, Rwanda in August for three days of learning, collaboration, and relationship-building to advance impactful local and regional advocacy.

Walking home one afternoon through the streets of São José do Alegre, a quiet rural town in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, João heard a notification ping and pulled out his phone. He read the ...

🇧🇯 Benin Chapter hosted a webinar on the hidden security risks of everyday connected devices to raise awareness about their common security flaws and how they can be exploited. 🇮🇳 India Bengaluru ...

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 board provides strategic direction, oversight, inspiration, and advice in support of the Internet Society’s mission and vision. The board’s role is strictly limited to governance, ensuring the ...

Virtual private networks (VPNs) are important tools for improving digital security, privacy, and online trust. Despite this, some governments seek to ban, limit, or control their use. Some governments ...

In October 2015 Hamadoun Toure was appointed as Founding Executive Director of SMART Africa Alliance and he took office in January 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda. Hamadoun was Secretary General of the ...

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is the latest wave of integration of technology into our lives and surroundings. This rapidly-spreading new generation of devices brings cameras, microphones, sensors, ...

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 ...

Using the Internet Impact Assessment Toolkit can help you perform a quick analysis of a legislative proposal, business decision, or technological development to promote informed decisions about the ...

Responsible data handling means applying ethical principles of transparency, fairness and respect to how we treat the data that affects people’s lives. It can protect our privacy and autonomy and ...

This is a discussion paper. This paper represents the Internet Society’s emerging opinion, but does not represent a final Internet Society position. Instead, we intend it as a means to gather ...