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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?

  • Serene Lim
    Malaysia
    Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (…
  • Walid Al-Saqaf
    Yemen
    Individual
  • Tonny Okwonga
    Uganda
    BOSCO Uganda
  • Noha Fathy
    Egypt
    independent
  • Erick Huerta V…
    Mexico
    International Telecommunication Union
  • Amy K. Mahan
    United States
    APC
  • Arne Hintz
    United Kingdom
    Cardiff University
  • Lillian Nalwoga
    Tanzania
    CIPESA
  • Paul Mobbs
    United Kingdom
    Mobbs' Environmental Investigations
  • Angelica Valer…
    United Kingdom
    Centre for Development Informatics,…
  • Mariana Canto
    Brazil
    IP.rec - Instituto de Pesquisa em…
  • Andrea Cairola
    Italy
    n.a
  • Alvarez Malvido
    Mexico
    Redes A.C
  • Miru Lee
    Republic of Korea
    Korean progressive network center…
  • Jan Moolman
    South Africa
    SANGONeT
  • Sally-Jean Sha…
    Women’sNet
  • Tim Schütz
    Germany
    Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Petra Molnar
    Canada
    International Human Rights Program,…
  • Dr Syed Sultan Kazi
    India
    Digital Empowerment Foundation
  • Ugo Vallauri
    United Kingdom
    The Restart Project
  • Diana C. Hernández
    Panama
    IPANDETEC
  • Sheena Magenya
    South Africa
    Coalition of African Lesbians [CAL] and…
  • Mitali Thakor
    United States
    MIT
  • Wolfgang Klein…
    Denmark/Germany
    University of Aarhus

Review

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

"I think the project is amazing.
For me it was important because it's a great opportunity to share information about a grassroot project globally. International character of reports make GISWatch unique: I don't know if there are any other opportunities to gather diverse experiences and specialists from different spheres."
- Daria Manshina, SYSMU, Russia- GISWatch author
"The report brings the discussion on those themes to the local grassroots, policy and government officials who might not have a culture of community input or multistakholderims"
- Hamza Ben Mehrez, iGmena, Tunisia
"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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Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) 
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