Local Infrastructure, Lower Costs: How Peering Is Moving the Needle on Internet Affordability Local infrastructure impacts Internet affordability for users: if the cost is lower and speed and ...

We work to help newly connected people have a safer online experience. When they first get connected, new Internet users enter a complex digital environment, which can be difficult to navigate safely ...

The Internet is fundamentally based on the existence of open, non-proprietary standards. They are key to allowing devices, services, and applications to work together across a wide and dispersed ...

Final Results of the 2026 Internet Society Board of Trustees Elections and IETF Selections The Internet Society Elections Committee is pleased to announce the final results of the 2026 elections and ...

The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual, regional, multistakeholder ICT conference. It is the pinnacle educational and business ICT event in Africa where key players in the Internet industry can ...

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 ...

What is DNS, and Why is it Critical? The domain name system (DNS) [1] is fundamental to everything we do online. Serving as a directory lookup for the Internet, it makes the Internet easier for humans ...

UN-convened forum provides opportunity to map Internet’s future; connect the next billions to an open, trusted Internet João Pessoa, Brazil — Today at the 10th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting ...

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 ...

Encryption is a technology designed to help Internet users keep their information and communications private and secure. The process of encryption scrambles information so that it can only be read by ...

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 ...

We get better answers to global questions when a range of experts and interests can meaningfully take part in the discussion. Many people talk about ‘the multistakeholder model’ as if it is a single ...