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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?

  • Victor Kapiyo
    Kenya
    Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet)
  • Francis Monyango
    Kenya
    Independent
  • Mariano Mendez
    Mexico
    Ik 'ta K'op Collective
  • Irene Poetranto
    Canada
    The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
  • Izumi Aizu
    Japan
    Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama…
  • Serene Lim
    Malaysia
    Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (…
  • Peter Bloom
    Mexico
    Rhizomatica
  • Hana Marku
    Kosovo
    Independent researcher
  • Vidushi Marda
    India
    CIS
  • Willie Currie
    South Africa
    Association for Progressive…
  • Agustina Callegari
    Argentina
    Universidad de San Andrés
  • Azra Causevic
    Bosnia Herzegovina
    LGBT*IQA Association Okvir
  • Anulekha Nandi
    India
    Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
  • Natalia Tariq
    Pakistan
    APC
  • Sophie Toupin
    Canada
    FemHack Collective
  • Leonardo Maccari
    Italy
    University of Trento
  • Catherine Muya
    Kenya
    ARTICLE19 Eastern Africa
  • Connor Kanso
    Lebanon
    The American University of Beirut…
  • Juliana Harsianti
    Indonesia
    Global Voices
  • Sol Trumbo Vila
    Netherlands
    Enviu
  • Assumpció Guasch
    Spain
    Pangea
  • David Ramirez
    Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
    REDES A.C - Redes por la Diversidad,…
  • Gul Bukhari
    Pakistan
    Bytes for All Pakistan
  • Ron Deibert
    Canada
    Citizen Lab

Review

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

"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
"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
"“Every child should have a computer”. This political statement is heard frequently but is that enough for an ICT policy? "
- Bogdan Manolea
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