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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?

  • Monserrat Lagu…
    Mexico
    sontusdatos
  • Olga Paz Martinez
    Colombia
    Colnodo
  • María Florenci…
    Argentina
    Nodo TAU
  • Nathalie Caccamo
    Canada
    Communautique
  • Leonor Lamas
    Peru
    n/a
  • Liora Amina Berisha
    Bosnia Herzegovina
    One World Platform
  • Anna Walkowiak
    Poland
    Panoptykon Foundation
  • David Sasaki
    None
    None
  • Najat A. Saliba
    Lebanon
    The American University of Beirut…
  • Roméo Mbengou
    Congo Republic
    AZUR Développement
  • Amy K. Mahan
    United States
    APC
  • Mireille Raad
    Lebanon
    individual
  • Vanja Gagović
    Montenegro
    n/a
  • John-Khalid Brigden
    Maldives
    Maldivian Network to Empowerment Women…
  • Demba Kandeh
    Gambia
    individual
  • Lea Melandri
    Italy
    N/A
  • Daniel Mwesigwa
    Uganda
    CIPESA
  • André Ramiro
    Brazil
    Alexander von Humboldt Institute for…
  • Alan Finlay
    South Africa
    Open Research
  • Rosa Vroom
    Bulgaria
    Blue Link
  • Sudhir Krishnaswamy
    India
    IT for Change
  • Kurtis Heimerl
    United States
    University of Washington
  • Roberto Carlos…
    Peru
    Ministerio de Cultura de Perú
  • Ananya Raihan
    Development Research Network (D-Net)

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

"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
"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 is a great source of knowledge on different country perspectives on similar themes. I rely on GISWatch for research that I do on gender issues as it provides research on topical issues.The report development process provides a structure that authors can follow but still allows them to be flexible in their write up."
- Chenai Chair, Research ICT Africa, South Africa - GISWatch author
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