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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?

  • Anir Chowdhury
    Bangladesh
    Prime Minister’s National Digital Task…
  • Connor Kanso
    Lebanon
    The American University of Beirut…
  • Hopeton S. Dunn
    Jamaica
    Caribbean Programme in…
  • Pablo Ortellado
    Brazil
    GPOPAI (Research Group on Public…
  • Arianit Dobroshi
    Kosovo
    Individual
  • Sally-Jean Sha…
    Women’sNet
  • Jorge Bossio
    Peru
    Universidad Peruana de Ciencias…
  • Camila Nobrega
    Brazil
    Intervozes/Free University of Berlin
  • Anoushka Jha
    India
    Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
  • Salanieta Wele…
    Fiji
    Development Alternatives with Women for…
  • Cedric Festin
    Philippines
    University of the Philippines - Diliman
  • Thaweeporn Kummetha
    Thailand
    Thai Netizen Network
  • Gurumurthy Kas…
    India
    IT for Change
  • Bruna Zanolli
    Brazil
    vedetas
  • Takao Shiino
    Japan
    Nomura Research Institute (NRI)
  • Maricarmen Sequera
    Paraguay
    TEDIC
  • Richard Heeks
    United Kingdom
    Centre for Development Informatics,…
  • Gisela Perez de Acha
    Mexico
    Derechos Digitales
  • Joanne Sandler
    None
    Gender at Work
  • Roque Gagliano
    Latin American and Caribbean Internet…
  • Stéphane Couture
    Canada
    York University
  • Hakikur Rahman
    Sustainable Development Networking…
  • Robin Gross
    United States
    IP Justice
  • Joy Liddicoat
    New Zealand
    Association for Progressive…

Review

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

"I think this is a very important and fascination project, and it is impressive how you managed to put together experts from so many different countries."
- Maria Pasholok, Hromadske.TV, Ukraine - GISWatch author
"GISWatch may be very useful for thosewho want to have a general idea of global situation on specific issues and in that sense, the theme is often quite broad, so different topics may be included in the same theme."
- Oh Byoungil, Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet - GISWatch author
"The project is very valuable and provides fantastic insight to the subjects as it tries to get first hand information from the writers from/within the countries in question. I think this way it creates an alternative resource to those that are prepared by Western institutions by going to these countries for few weeks only. Therefore GISWatch provides a much more authentic information."
- Gunes Tavmen, Hun Consulting, Turkey - GISWatch author
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