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Reports

2024 special edition - WSIS+20: Reimagining horizons of dignity, equity and justice for our digital future
2021-2022 - Digital futures for a post-pandemic world
2020 - Technology, the environment and a sustainable world: Responses from the global South
2019 - Artificial intelligence: Human rights, social justice and development
2018 - Community Networks
Action Steps: A decade of civil society advocacy in the information society
2017 - National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
2017 Special Issue: Unshackling expression - A study on laws criminalising expression online in Asia
2017 Special Issue - Internet governance from the edges: National and regional IGFs in their own words
2016 - Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ESCRs) and the internet
2015 - Sexual rights and the internet
2014 - Communications surveillance in the digital age
Internet rights that went wrong in Turkey
2013 - Women's rights, gender and ICTs
Communication rights ten years after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Civil society perceptions
2012 - The internet and corruption
2011 - Internet rights and democratisation
2011 - Update I: Internet rights and democratisation
2011 - Update II: Internet rights and democratisation
2010 - ICTs and Environmental Sustainability
2009 - Access to Online Information and Knowledge
2008 - Access to Infrastructure
2007 - Participation

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Themes

  • Access to educational materials
  • Access to libraries
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Civil society participation
  • Climate change
  • Communications surveillance
  • Digital rights
  • E-waste
  • Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ESCRs)
  • Environment and ICT
  • Freedom of association
  • Freedom of expression
  • Information and democracy
  • Information and livelihoods
  • Infrastructure
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Internet advocacy
  • Internet and corruption
  • Internet governance
  • Internet rights
  • Knowledge rights
  • Meaningful access
  • Open culture
  • Open standards
  • Privacy
  • Sexual rights
  • Social mobilisation
  • Transparency and accountability online
  • Women's rights, gender

Country

  • Afrique du sud
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Anonymous
  • Argentina
  • Argentine
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bosnie-Herzégovine
  • Brasil
  • Brazil
  • Brésil
  • Bulgaria
  • Bulgarie
  • Burundi (East Africa region)
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Cameroun
  • Canada
  • Catalonia
  • Chile
  • Chili
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Colombie
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of
  • Congo, Republic of
  • Cook Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Croatie
  • Cuba
  • Democratic Republic of
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Égypte
  • El Salvador
  • Équateur
  • Espagne
  • España
  • Ethiopia
  • Éthiopie
  • France
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Georgia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Inde
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Islas Cook
  • Italy
  • Ivory Coast
  • Jamaica
  • Jamaïque
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kirghizistan
  • Korea
  • Korea, Republic of
  • Kosovo
  • Kyrgyz Republic
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lebanon
  • Macedonia
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mauritius
  • México
  • Mexique
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Occupied Palestine Territory
  • Ouganda
  • Ouzbékistan
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Pérou
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Republic of
  • République démocratique du congo
  • République du congo
  • Romania
  • Roumanie
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Slovak Republic
  • South Africa
  • South America
  • Spain
  • Sudan
  • Suisse
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • tha
  • Thailand
  • Togo
  • Trinindad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Western Balkans
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zambie
  • Zimbabwe

Where are we watching?

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    South Africa
    groundWork
  • Elijah Sparrow
    United States
    LEAP Encryption Access Project
  • Nicola J Bidwell
    Namibia
    International University of Management…
  • Anita Gurumurthy
    None
    IT for Change
  • Alfredo López
    USA
    MayFirst/PeopleLink
  • George Klissiaris
    Greece
    Sarantaporo.gr
  • Yahia Shukkeir
    Jordan
    Alarab Alayawm
  • Miru Lee
    Republic of Korea
    Korean progressive network center…
  • Martin Husovec
    Slovakia
    European Information Society Institute…
  • Camila Nobrega
    Brazil
    Intervozes/Free University of Berlin
  • Graciela Selaimen
    Brazil
    Instituto Nupef
  • Loe Schout
    Netherlands
    Hivos
  • Filip Stojanovski
    Macedonia
    Metamorphosis
  • Hiba Dlewati
    Syria
    n/a
  • Catherine Muya
    Kenya
    ARTICLE19 Eastern Africa
  • Tâmara Terso
    Brazil
    Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de…
  • Jeremy Druker
    Czech Republic
    Transitions Online
  • Jane Duncan
    South Africa
    University of Johannesburg
  • Anulekha Nandi
    India
    Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
  • Elina Racholova
    BlueLink Information Network
  • Peter Lange
    Intelligent Networx
  • Evin Barış Altıntaş
    Turkey
    Correspondent at Today’s Zaman
  • Namita Aavriti
    India
    APC
  • Jeanette Hofmann
    United States
    ICANN
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Blog

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  • Global Information Society Watch 2016 on economic, social and cultural rights and the internet to be launched in Mexico
  • Watching the watchers: A global monitor of the information society since 2007
  • GISWatch 2014: Communications surveillance in the digital age
  • Launch of GISWATCH 2014 on Communications Surveillance
  • GISWatch print editions now available on-demand
  • New: Update on freedom of expression progress for 10 countries
  • The internet and corruption: Inhibitor or enabler to a fair society?
  • 2012 GISWatch on “the internet and corruption” launched during the IGF

Review

2024 special edition - WSIS+20: Reimagining horizons of dignity, equity and justice for our digital future

"the GISWatch is a magical space for learning, knowledge sharing and advocacy. Stakeholders should use this to help implement the human right-based approach to programming"
- Pacôme Sênoudé Tomètissi, POPDEV Bénin, Benin – GISWatch author
"I love the project and I think it is a very very unique snapshot of "the internet" and "the real world" - it is a global snapshot and horizon scan... it is very valuable for me to look back on the reports from all the countries and draw comparisons... it is like the story of the internet.. different chapters, different themes, every year :)"
- Mireille Raad, Lebanon - GISWatch author
"I think the project is amazing.
For me it was important because it's a great opportunity to share information about a grassroot project globally. International character of reports make GISWatch unique: I don't know if there are any other opportunities to gather diverse experiences and specialists from different spheres."
- Daria Manshina, SYSMU, Russia- GISWatch author
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