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Reports

2020 - Technology, the environment and a sustainable world: Responses from the global South
2019 - Artificial intelligence: Human rights, social justice and development
Action Steps: A decade of civil society advocacy in the information society
2018 - Community Networks
2017 Special Issue - Internet governance from the edges: National and regional IGFs in their own words
2017 - National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
2017 Special Issue: Unshackling expression - A study on laws criminalising expression online in Asia
2016 - Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ESCRs) and the internet
2015 - Sexual rights and the internet
2014 - Communications surveillance in the digital age
Internet rights that went wrong in Turkey
2013 - Women's rights, gender and ICTs
Communication rights ten years after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Civil society perceptions
2012 - The internet and corruption
2011 - Update I: Internet rights and democratisation
2011 - Update II: Internet rights and democratisation
2011 - Internet rights and democratisation
2010 - ICTs and Environmental Sustainability
2009 - Access to Online Information and Knowledge
2008 - Access to Infrastructure
2007 - Participation

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Themes

  • Access to educational materials
  • Access to libraries
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Civil society participation
  • Climate change
  • Communications surveillance
  • E-waste
  • Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ESCRs)
  • Environment and ICT
  • Freedom of association
  • Freedom of expression
  • Information and democracy
  • Information and livelihoods
  • Infrastructure
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Internet and corruption
  • Internet governance
  • Internet rights
  • Knowledge rights
  • Open culture
  • Open standards
  • Privacy
  • Sexual rights
  • Social mobilisation
  • Transparency and accountability online
  • Women's rights, gender

Country

  • Afrique du sud
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Anonymous
  • Argentina
  • Argentine
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belarus
  • Benin
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bosnie-Herzégovine
  • Brasil
  • Brazil
  • Brésil
  • Bulgaria
  • Bulgarie
  • Burundi (East Africa region)
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Cameroun
  • Canada
  • Catalonia
  • Chile
  • Chili
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Colombie
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of
  • Congo, Republic of
  • Cook Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Croatie
  • Democratic Republic of
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Égypte
  • Équateur
  • Espagne
  • España
  • Ethiopia
  • Éthiopie
  • France
  • Gambia
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  • Georgia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Inde
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Islas Cook
  • Italy
  • Ivory Coast
  • Jamaica
  • Jamaïque
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kirghizistan
  • Korea
  • Korea, Republic of
  • Kosovo
  • Kyrgyz Republic
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lebanon
  • Macedonia
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mauritius
  • México
  • Mexique
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Occupied Palestine Territory
  • Ouganda
  • Ouzbékistan
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Pérou
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Republic of
  • République démocratique du congo
  • République du congo
  • Romania
  • Roumanie
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Slovak Republic
  • South Africa
  • South America
  • Spain
  • Sudan
  • Suisse
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • tha
  • Thailand
  • Togo
  • Trinindad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Western Balkans
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zambie
  • Zimbabwe

Where are we watching?

  • Anulekha Nandi
    India
    Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
  • Miru Lee
    Republic of Korea
    Korean progressive network center…
  • Javier Ruiz
    United Kingdom
    Open Rights Group
  • Deirdre Williams
    Saint Lucia
    Independent
  • Gunes Tavmen
    Turkey
    author
  • Alex Comninos
    South Africa
    Justus-Liebig University Giessen
  • AHM Bazlur Rahman
    Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and…
  • Stephen Wyber
    The Netherlands
    International Federation of Library…
  • Donald Flywell…
    Malawi
    University of Livingstonia
  • Diana C. Hernández
    Panama
    IPANDETEC
  • Josephine C. D…
    Philippines
    University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Ariel Barbosa
    Colombia
    Colnodo
  • Alfredo López
    USA
    MayFirst/PeopleLink
  • Andrew Rens
    South Africa
    n/a
  • Jamael Jacob
    Philippines
    Foundation for Media Alternatives
  • Charley Lewis
    South Africa
    LINK Centre, University of the…
  • Sheena Magenya
    South Africa
    Coalition of African Lesbians [CAL] and…
  • Anoushka Jha
    India
    Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
  • Carlos F. Baca…
    Mexico
    Techio Comunitario
  • Joanne Sandler
    None
    Gender at Work
  • Katitza Rodríguez
    United States
    Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Emanuele Lapie…
    Canada
    University of Toronto
  • Miguel Morachi…
    Peru
    Hiperderecho
  • Djordje Krivokapic
    Serbia
    Share Foundation / University of…

Blog

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  • Global Information Society Watch 2016 on economic, social and cultural rights and the internet to be launched in Mexico
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  • GISWatch 2014: Communications surveillance in the digital age
  • Launch of GISWATCH 2014 on Communications Surveillance
  • GISWatch print editions now available on-demand
  • New: Update on freedom of expression progress for 10 countries
  • The internet and corruption: Inhibitor or enabler to a fair society?
  • 2012 GISWatch on “the internet and corruption” launched during the IGF

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- Maria Florencia Roveri, Nodo TAU, Argentina- GISWatch author
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