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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?

  • María Goñi
    Uruguay
    ObservaTIC, Universidad de la República
  • Edwin Huizing
    Netherlands
    Hivos
  • Gul Bukhari
    Pakistan
    Bytes for All Pakistan
  • George Klissiaris
    Greece
    Sarantaporo.gr
  • Mariana Canto
    Brazil
    IP.rec - Instituto de Pesquisa em…
  • Takao Shiino
    Japan
    Nomura Research Institute (NRI)
  • Gopalakrishnan R
    India
    Society For Promotion of Alternative…
  • Connor Kanso
    Lebanon
    The American University of Beirut…
  • Natalia Neris
    Brazil
    Internet Lab
  • Gertjan Van Stam
    Zimbabwe
    Scientific and Industrial Research and…
  • Ariel Barbosa
    Colombia
    Colnodo
  • Wairagala Wakabi
    Uganda
    Collaboration on International ICT…
  • Nisarat Tansakul
    Thailand
    Internet Education and Research…
  • Christoph Stork
    Namibia
    Research ICT Africa (RIA)
  • Patricia Peña
    Chile
    Universidad de Chile, Instituto de la…
  • Jamael Jacob
    Philippines
    Foundation for Media Alternatives
  • Rafael Goldzweig
    Panama
    Ipandetec
  • Loe Schout
    Netherlands
    Hivos
  • Arianit Dobroshi
    Kosovo
    Individual
  • Parminder Jeet Singh
    IT for Change
  • Sinem Hun
    Turkey
    HUn
  • Hannah Thinyane
    Macao
    United Nations University, Institute on…
  • Walid Al-Saqaf
    Yemen
    Individual
  • Grady Johnson
    Canada
    Open Technology Institute, New America

Review

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

"With your help I feel I am improving my writing from one report to the next"
- GISWatch helps improve skills in training and lecturing
"the GISWatch is a magical space for learning, knowledge sharing and advocacy. Stakeholders should use this to help implement the human right-based approach to programming"
- Pacôme Sênoudé Tomètissi, POPDEV Bénin, Benin – 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
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