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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?

  • Sol Trumbo Vila
    Netherlands
    Enviu
  • Jac sm Kee
    Malaysia
    Association for Progressive…
  • Hudson Lockett
    China
    Danwei and Media Monitor for Women…
  • Iraildon Mota
    Brazil
    Comradio
  • Markus Kummer
    Switzerland
    Internet Governance Forum Support…
  • María Julia Mo…
    Uruguay
    ObservaTIC
  • Najat A. Saliba
    Lebanon
    The American University of Beirut…
  • Suporna Roy
    Development Research Network (D-Net)
  • Noha Fathy
    Egypt
    independent
  • Jacobo Nájera
    Mexico
    The Tor Project
  • Kurtis Heimerl
    United States
    University of Washington
  • Ana Tuduri
    Uruguay
    Datysoc
  • Gisela Perez de Acha
    Mexico
    Derechos Digitales
  • Anas Tawileh
    Syria
    Anas Tawileh
  • Maureen Hernandez
    Venezuela
    Independent researcher
  • Sam Bahour
    Palestine
    Applied Information Management (AIM)
  • Donald Flywell…
    Malawi
    University of Livingstonia
  • Anna Anet Sambou
    Gambia
    SHOAW Gambia
  • Maya Indira Ganesh
    Kenya
    Tactical Tech
  • Raymond Onuoha
    Nigeria
    Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic…
  • Wairagala Wakabi
    Uganda
    Collaboration on International ICT…
  • Bala Dada
    Nigeria
    Fantsuam Foundation
  • Pablo Accuosto
    Uruguay
    APC
  • Mariana Giorge…
    Brazil
    Internet Lab

Review

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

"I am using GISWatch in a course I am convening on development communications at Wits University."
- GISWatch Review
"The report is like a tool for evaluation, awareness, advocacy and monitoring."
- Ababacar Diop , Jonction, Senegal
"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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