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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?

  • Alexander Kashumov
    Bulgaria
    BlueLink Information Network, Access to…
  • Brynhildur Hei…
    Iceland
    Icelandic Women’s Rights Association
  • Mallory Knodel
    Canada
    APC
  • Gertjan Van Stam
    Zimbabwe
    Scientific and Industrial Research and…
  • Najat A. Saliba
    Lebanon
    The American University of Beirut…
  • Yawri Carr
    Costa Rica
    Technical University of Munich
  • Sunil Abraham
    India
    Centre for Internet and Society,…
  • Frederik Zuide…
    Netherlands
    Institute for Information Law
  • Emmanuel Habumuremyi
    Rwanda
    Independent Writer
  • Charley Lewis
    South Africa
    LINK Centre, University of the…
  • Nadine Moawad
    Lebanon
    APC
  • Coura Fall
    Senegal
    APC West and Central Africa ICT4D…
  • Arthit Suriyawongkul
    Thailand
    Thai Netizen Network
  • Peter Lange
    Intelligent Networx
  • Jac sm Kee
    Malaysia
    Association for Progressive…
  • Towela Nyirenda Jere
    South Africa
    NEPAD
  • Alberto Cerda
    Chile
    ONG Derechos Digitales/Digital Rights…
  • Débora Prado
    Brazil
    Lavits/Labjor-Unicamp
  • Lisa Garcia
    Phillipines
    FMA
  • Amina Wadoud
    Egypt
    n/a
  • Iraildon Mota
    Brazil
    Comradio
  • Oliver Poole
    Russia
    Associate Editor at the Independent on…
  • Theresa Tafida
    Nigeria
    Fatsuam Foundation
  • Felix Freitag
    Catalonia
    guifi.net community

Blog

  • A video on GISWatch and ESCRs
  • 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

"Nobody, within its own very busy work, could monitor all topics in all region. GISWatch is the nearest tool to achieve such a goal in the Internet world."
- giacomo mazzone, eurovisioni, italy - GISWatch author
"The project has unique value as it provides a global but detailed overview of different key topics. It helps people to get the arguments and diverse/complementary detailed views about topics.
In the long term, some of the topics should be revisited to monitor evolution and update the content to keep it relevant"
- Leandro Navarro, Pangea, Spain - GISWatch author
"The project is very valuable and provides fantastic insight to the subjects as it tries to get first hand information from the writers from/within the countries in question. I think this way it creates an alternative resource to those that are prepared by Western institutions by going to these countries for few weeks only. Therefore GISWatch provides a much more authentic information."
- Gunes Tavmen, Hun Consulting, Turkey - GISWatch author
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