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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?

  • Sally-Jean Sha…
    Women’sNet
  • Parkpoom Tripatana
    Thailand
    Parkpoom Tripatana
  • Ana Laura Rivoir
    Uruguay
    ObservaTIC (Faculty of Social Sciences…
  • Abiodun Jagun
    United Kingdom
    Department of Management Science,…
  • Ferdiansyah Thajib
    Indonesia
    Engagemedia
  • Serge Daho
    Cameroon
    PROTEGE QV
  • J. Carlos Lara
    Chile
    ONG Derechos Digitales
  • Camila Nobrega
    Brazil
    Intervozes/Free University of Berlin
  • Demba Kandeh
    Gambia
    individual
  • Lebogang Marishane
    South Africa
    Women’sNet
  • Andrea Cairola
    Italy
    n.a
  • Paulo Duarte
    Brazil
    Instituto Nupef
  • Berna Ngolobe
    Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
  • Lagartata n
    Macedonia
    n/a
  • Liora Amina Berisha
    Bosnia Herzegovina
    One World Platform
  • Víctor Práxe…
    Spain
    Karisma Foundation
  • Min Kyung Jeong
    Republic of Korea
    Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet
  • Shahzad Ahmad
    Pakistan
    Bytes for All
  • Martin Husovec
    Slovakia
    European Information Society Institute…
  • Rafid Fatani
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabian Strategic Internet…
  • Daniel Pimienta
    Republica Dominicana
    Networks and Development Foundation (…
  • Liemia El-Abubkr
    Sudan
    individual-
  • Sol Luca de Tena
    South Africa
    Zenzeleni
  • Deirdre Williams
    Saint Lucia
    Independent

Review

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

"The report is like a tool for evaluation, awareness, advocacy and monitoring."
- Ababacar Diop , Jonction, Senegal
"I think the project is really helpful. This type of initiatives contributes in the development of our countries. the articles are sources of information to our Society and to our policymakers, they can use it and obtain ideas and apply them in our countries based in our reality. Also the report give us an image of whats happening in other regions."
- Krizia Matthews, IPANDETEC Panama- GISWatch author
"For substantive policy action to take place more thoughtful leadership from virtual roundtables like GISWatch is needed."
- Catherine Candano
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