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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?

  • Arun M
    India
    Space kerala
  • Michel Roberto…
    Chile
    Derechos Digitales
  • Emilie Jabouin
    cameroon
    PROTEGE QV
  • Renata Ávila
    Guatemala
    Open Knowledge Foundation
  • Assumpció Guasch
    Spain
    Pangea
  • Renato Lo Cigno
    Italy
    University of Trento
  • Min Kyung Jeong
    Republic of Korea
    Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet
  • Ben Akoh
    Canada
    Open Society Initiative for West Africa…
  • Irene Poetranto
    Canada
    The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
  • Marta Solano
    Spain
    SETEM
  • Aimilia Voulvouli
    Greece
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Abebe Chekol H…
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopian Free & Open Source…
  • Jacobo Nájera
    Mexico
    The Tor Project
  • Ragib Hasan
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN)
  • Sheena Magenya
    South Africa
    Coalition of African Lesbians [CAL] and…
  • Nhlanhla Ngwenya
    Zimbabwe
    individual
  • Elonnai Hickok
    India
    Centre for Internet and Society
  • Roberto Carlos…
    Peru
    Ministerio de Cultura de Perú
  • Barnabé Affougnon
    Benin
    GOREeTIC
  • Nadine Moawad
    Lebanon
    APC
  • Mike Jensen
    South Africa
    APC
  • Olga Paz Martinez
    Colombia
    Colnodo
  • Maria Pasholok
    Ukraine
    individual
  • Éva Tormássy
    Hungary
    GISWatch

Review

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

"GISWatch 2011 offers timely commentary on the future of the internet as an open and shared platform that everyone has the right to access."
- Frank La Rue, UN Special Rapporteur
"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 report is like a tool for evaluation, awareness, advocacy and monitoring."
- Ababacar Diop , Jonction, Senegal
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