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Global Information Society Watch

Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) is a collaborative community committed to building an open, inclusive and sustainable information society.

Reports

2026
2026 Special edition - Free/libre and open source software: Visions of openness from the Global South

2026 Special edition - Free/libre and open source software: Visions of openness from the Global South

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

Blog

  • A video on GISWatch and ESCRs
    September 2017
  • Global Information Society Watch 2016 on economic, social and cultural rights and the internet to be launched in Mexico
    November 2016
  • Watching the watchers: A global monitor of the information society since 2007
    May 2015
  • GISWatch 2014: Communications surveillance in the digital age
    September 2014
  • Launch of GISWATCH 2014 on Communications Surveillance
    August 2014
  • GISWatch print editions now available on-demand
    April 2013
  • New: Update on freedom of expression progress for 10 countries
    February 2013
  • The internet and corruption: Inhibitor or enabler to a fair society?
    February 2013

Where are we watching?

  • Laura Bedford
    Australia
    Deakin University
  • Shivangi Narayan
    India
    Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  • Nadine Moawad
    Lebanon
    APC
  • Maria Pasholok
    Ukraine
    individual
  • Sylvie Niombo
    Congo
    AZUR Développement
  • Hiba Dlewati
    Syria
    n/a
  • Lia P. Hernánd…
    Panama
    Ipandetec
  • Michele D. Thomas
    Jamaica
    University of the west indies
  • Jeanette Hofmann
    United States
    ICANN
  • Indra de Lanerolle
    South Africa
    University of Witwatersrand
  • Gus Hosein
    United Kingdom
    Privacy International
  • Cédric Laurant
    Mexico
    SonTusDatos
  • Sam Bahour
    Palestine
    Applied Information Management (AIM)
  • Farzaneh Badii
    Iran
    Syracuse University
  • Andrew Beklemishev
    Kazakhstan
    ICT Consultant
  • Y. Z. Ya’u
    Nigeria
    CITAD
  • Alice W. Munyua
    Kenya
    Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet)
  • Talant Sultanov
    Kyrgyz Republic
    The Kyrgyz Chapter of the Internet…
  • Jamila Venturini
    Brazil
    Derechos Digitales
  • Ucha Seturi
    Georgia
    Small and Medium Telecom Operators…
  • Donald Flywell…
    Malawi
    University of Livingstonia
  • Federico Rodríguez
    Uruguay
    Observatic
  • Olga Paz Martinez
    Colombia
    Colnodo
  • Katitza Rodríguez
    United States
    Electronic Frontier Foundation

Review

2026 Special edition - Free/libre and open source software: Visions of openness from the Global South

"There is genuine need for the new spaces opened by this project , which at the same time sharing different country experiences building plat form for solidarity and supporting different communities to share their challenges and to show the state violations of its international HR obligation. The report development for me is a learning process and opportunity to meet other activists and defenders from different country sharing the same values and principles"
- Liemia Eljaili Abubkr - Freelance Journalist - Sudan – GISWatch author
"I think that GISWatch is an unique project as regards the number of countries involved, and the variety of perspectives. But at the same time with a very precise focus, related to each issue and to the methodology proposed. The challenge is to find a story, a case widely en-richen the way in which the issues could be followed and understood."
- Maria Florencia Roveri, Nodo TAU, Argentina- GISWatch author
"The annual GISWatch reports have become must-read material for analysts and activists concerned with the social, economic and political effects of information and communication technologies."
- GISWatch reports a "must-read"
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