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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?

  • Cédric Laurant
    Mexico
    SonTusDatos
  • Mathana Stender
    Germany
    Centre for Internet and Human Rights,…
  • Assumpció Guasch
    Spain
    Pangea
  • Niels ten Oever
    Netherlands
    Article 19
  • Gul Bukhari
    Pakistan
    Bytes for All Pakistan
  • Natalia Neris
    Brazil
    Internet Lab
  • Claudio Pisa
    Italy
    Ninux.org
  • Olga Balbine Tsafack
    Cameroon
    PROTEGE-QV
  • Tattu Mambetalieva
    Civil Initiative on Internet Policy
  • Melissa Ditmore
    United States
    Sex Work Awareness
  • Vidushi Marda
    India
    CIS
  • Levi Kabwato
    Malawi
    n/a
  • Joanne Sandler
    None
    Gender at Work
  • Towela Nyirenda Jere
    South Africa
    NEPAD
  • Arun M
    India
    Space kerala
  • Jane Duncan
    South Africa
    University of Johannesburg
  • Djordje Krivokapic
    Serbia
    Share Foundation / University of…
  • Ramy Raoof
    Egypt
    Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights…
  • Kathleen Diga
    South Africa
    APC
  • Noha Fathy
    Egypt
    independent
  • Stéphane Couture
    Canada
    York University
  • Thaweeporn Kummetha
    Thailand
    Thai Netizen Network
  • Hakikur Rahman
    Sustainable Development Networking…
  • Giacomo Mazzone
    Italy
    European Broadcasting Union

Review

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

"After reading through the 53 national reports, the truth seems unassailable. In report after report, electronic waste rises to the top of the list."
- Anthony Louis D'Agostino
"ICT policy issues were not a priority for our organization previously. Due to GISW we got involved in this areas and disseminate these ideas in the Romanian NGO and academic communities."
- Rozalia Klara Bako - StrawberryNet Foundation and Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania - GISWatch author
"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
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