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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?

  • Hanadi Traifeh
    Syria
    N/A
  • Nathalie Caccamo
    Canada
    Communautique
  • Mark Gevisser
    South Africa
    Mark Gevisser
  • Gabrijela Ivanov
    Croatia
    VoxFeminae.net
  • Éva Tormássy
    Hungary
    GISWatch
  • Serge Daho
    Cameroon
    PROTEGE QV
  • Gareth Seneque
    Australia
    Geist Consulting
  • Filip Stojanovski
    Macedonia
    Metamorphosis
  • Jésica Giudice
    Argentina
    QuintanaLibre
  • Leonardo Maccari
    Italy
    University of Trento
  • Florencia Roveri
    Argentina
    Nodo TAU
  • Erika Smith
    Mexico
    Association for Progressive…
  • Joy Liddicoat
    New Zealand
    Association for Progressive…
  • Chat Garcia Ramilo
    Philippines
    Association for Progressive…
  • Abiodun Jagun
    United Kingdom
    Department of Management Science,…
  • Chenai Chair
    South Africa
    Research ICT Africa
  • Andrea Cairola
    Italy
    n.a
  • Jessica Dheere
    Lebanon
    Smex
  • Lina Gjerstad
    Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
    Alternatives
  • Mireia Roura S…
    Spain
    Technical University of Catalonia
  • Jeremy Druker
    Czech Republic
    Transitions Online
  • Adil Nurmakov
    Kazakhstan
    .
  • Cédric Laurant
    Mexico
    SonTusDatos
  • Tim Davies
    United Kingdom
    Web Foundation / Practical…

Review

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

"GISWATCH has an ambitious outlook: dealing with global issues through the lenses of local activists. The range of perspectives from around the world on chosen issues, is a unique factor of GISWATCH"
- Partha Sarker, Bytes for all, Bangladesh - GISWatch author
"The project is very important because it provides valuable insight in many topics and helps activists and other members of the Internet community see different challenges in various countries. "
- Bojan Perkov, SHARE Foundation, Serbia - GISWatch author
"I would say that its highest value is in the global visibility it has and the facts that smaller, remote countries are reported and in this way become visible and part of the global conversations."
- Valentina Pellizzer, one world platform, Bosnia Herzegovina - GISWatch author
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