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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?

  • Philip Arnold Tuaño
    Foundation for Media Alternatives
  • Marieliv Flore…
    Peru
    Hiperderecho
  • Vivek Vaidyanathan
    India
    IT for Change
  • Katitza Rodríguez
    United States
    Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Roger Harris
    Indonesia
    eBario
  • Maria Korolkova
    Ukraine
    University of Greenwich
  • María Goñi
    Uruguay
    ObservaTIC, Universidad de la República
  • Gurumurthy Kas…
    India
    IT for Change
  • Jeanette Hofmann
    United States
    ICANN
  • Sheherezade Kara
    None
    Independent
  • Dan McGarry
    Vanuatu
    individual
  • Osama Manzar
    India
    Digital Empowerment Foundation
  • Mondher Laabidi
    United States
    Arab World Internet Institute
  • Parkpoom Tripatana
    Thailand
    Parkpoom Tripatana
  • Jeremy Druker
    Czech Republic
    Transitions Online
  • Mallory Knodel
    Canada
    APC
  • Alan G. Alegre
    Philippines
    Foundation for Media Alternatives
  • Arzak Khan
    Pakistan
    Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan
  • Julián Casasbu…
    Colombia
    Colnodo
  • Mary Lawlor
    Ireland
    Front Line Defenders
  • Sol Luca de Tena
    South Africa
    Zenzeleni
  • Ugo Vallauri
    United Kingdom
    The Restart Project
  • Erick Iriarte
    Peru
    TIC.pe
  • Carly Nyst
    United Kingdom
    Privacy International

Review

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

"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
"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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Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) 
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