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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 - Decoding the technologies of violence: Women human rights defenders and the continuum of harm in the Global South

2026 Special edition - Decoding the technologies of violence: Women human rights defenders and the continuum of harm in the Global South

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

  • Malavika Prasad
    India
    N/A
  • Demba Kandeh
    Gambia
    individual
  • Lourdes Gonzal…
    Venezuela
    EslaRed
  • Asad Baig
    Pakistan
    MMfd
  • Erika Smith
    Mexico
    Association for Progressive…
  • Lina Gjerstad
    Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
    Alternatives
  • Alan G. Alegre
    Philippines
    Foundation for Media Alternatives
  • Karim Bitar
    Syria
    .
  • Leandro Navarro
    Spain
    Pangea (Comunicació per a la Cooperació…
  • Lin McDevitt-Pugh
    Netherlands
    NETSHEILA
  • Anat Ben-David
    Israel/Palestine
    University of Amsterdam
  • Tonny Okwonga
    Uganda
    BOSCO Uganda
  • Tâmara Terso
    Brazil
    Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de…
  • Lebogang Marishane
    South Africa
    Women’sNet
  • Cedric Festin
    Philippines
    University of the Philippines - Diliman
  • Assumpció Guasch
    Spain
    Pangea
  • Sudhir Krishnaswamy
    India
    IT for Change
  • Talant Sultanov
    Kyrgyz Republic
    The Kyrgyz Chapter of the Internet…
  • Angela M. Kuga Thas
    Malaysia
    Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (…
  • Andrej Petrovski
    Serbia
    SHARE Foundation
  • Bala Dada
    Nigeria
    Fantsuam Foundation
  • Ramon Roca
    Catalonia
    guifi.net community
  • Loe Schout
    Netherlands
    Hivos
  • Daria Manshina
    Russia
    SYSMU

Review

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

"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
"GW raises awareness on ICT policy processes on local, regional and global levels. Gives the creative input of a civil society perspective."
- Rozalia Klara Bako, StrawberryNet Foundation and Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania
"I am using GISWatch in a course I am convening on development communications at Wits University."
- GISWatch Review
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