In Manipur, India, residents had to live their lives without the Internet for over seven months when they experienced an Internet shutdown.

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In an age where connectivity is a cornerstone of progress and development, the need for quality Internet infrastructure cannot be overstated. In 2023, the Internet Society joined the Coalition for Digital Africa, an initiative launched by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) aimed at strengthening Internet infrastructure across the continent.                         The Internet […]

The post Advancing Digital Africa: Empowering Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Benin, Malawi, and Rwanda appeared first on Internet Society.

If any two people across the world from each other access the Internet at the same time, will they experience the same thing? To answer this question, some people may point out that people in China experience something much different than the rest of the world because of content filtering and the Great Firewall. Others […]

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Should the governments of Texas and Florida decide whether and how online discussion sites can moderate their posts? Let’s say you have an online community about the town you live in, and someone starts posting off-topic messages about some other town or city, should you be able to remove those messages? Or if you have […]

The post Can You Kick the Trolls Out Of Your Online Forum? U.S. Supreme Court to Decide appeared first on Internet Society.

If you needed to send a letter to your neighbor, you wouldn’t choose to send it via airmail across the continent and back first. Yet, this is how Internet traffic is routed in some parts of the world. For example, it’s not unusual for Internet traffic in Africa to first travel to Europe before ending […]

The post How Internet Exchange Points are Expanding and Improving Internet Access in Morocco  appeared first on Internet Society.

Partnering with the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), we believe that MANRS will continue to be further established as the globally recognized benchmark for global routing security.

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Technical communities are our best partners to create a global movement of experts working together to build a stronger and more resilient Internet.
Explore how you can start your own group to share best practices, get training, and collaborate to co-create solutions to local technical challenges.

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The European Commission is playing politics with the global Internet. It’s time it clearly rejected the idea of “network usage fees” once and for all. What is the European Commission doing? In February 2023, the European Commission launched a public consultation on “The future of the electronic communications sector and its infrastructure,” a highly anticipated […]

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Ulukhaktok Community Network

Canada’s Northwest Territories has 33 communities, many of which are home to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis individuals. The territory’s vast geography and remote nature of many of the communities has made it difficult to introduce fast, affordable, and reliable Internet due to expensive costs of infrastructure and a lack of economic incentive to build robust infrastructure in the far North.

But in 2023 the community of Ulukhaktok celebrated the launch of a DIY Internet access solution that offers universal access and—if replicated in other communities—would contribute to local Internet resiliency and help prevent people from losing access to the Internet when they need it most.

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No one in their right mind would now want to start up a high-tech company in the UK. With a last-minute addition to the Online Safety Bill (OSB), the UK government made it clear that startups are no longer welcome in the UK. Previously, the OSB applied to “regulated services” that had to be above […]

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Every day as I get my son ready for daycare, I recite seven words: “Hey Google, what’s the weather like today?” The results from this now-‘ritual’ search dictate what he’ll wear, what type of extra clothes I will pack, and whether we’ll need a jacket for the bike ride. Whatever way you seek to learn […]

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Tuvalu is sinking. It’s slowly but steadily being swallowed by the Pacific Ocean and will most likely be uninhabitable by 2100. Although there is a campaign to save Tuvalu from disappearing under the ocean water and to preserve its cultural legacy in the digital world, the fate of this small island nation is raising an […]

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We spoke with Riana Pfefferkorn, research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory, about encryption and protecting the Internet.

The post Encryption, Bad Bills, and Ripple Effects: How Riana Pfefferkorn Protects the Internet appeared first on Internet Society.

The Internet Resilience Index (IRI) tracks open-source Internet resiliency metrics to support the development of policies and infrastructure to improve Internet resilience everywhere.

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On 13 July 2023, the African Internet technical community lost one of its stars, Pierre Ouédraogo, fondly known by his peers as “Pierre O.” Pierre was such an important part of the community that it is difficult to imagine it without him. Not only was he a true Internet champion, he was a great friend […]

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The  NetLoss calculator is a new tool that estimates the economic cost of Internet shutdowns.

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The EARN IT Act, STOP CSAM Act, and KOSA in the United States threaten to weaken end-to-end encryption which puts us all at risk.

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Shaghap Community Network

In the mountainous village of Shaghap, in the Armenian region of Ararat, over 170 families live in a quiet area far from urban centers. Since they deployed their first community network in partnership with the local Union of Operators in 2021, they already have an expansion in mind and hosted the Europe Community Networks Summit in 2023.

The post How a Rural Community in Armenia Built Their Own Internet appeared first on Internet Society.

Policymakers are proposing laws that will weaken encryption.
The EARN IT Act, STOP CSAM Act, and many other proposed bills are threatening encryption in the name of keeping kids safe, but by weakening encryption, they’re doing the opposite.

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The Elections Committee announces the final results of the 2023 elections, the IETF selection, and the Board appointee. 

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