In Nepal, a couple of days’ hiking away from the Everest Base Camp, the communities of Khunde and Khumjung were considered connected by normal standards. After all, if people in the villages hiked up ...

The Internet is as vast and diverse as the people around the world who use it every day. Because of this diversity—both in uses and users alike—there are countless topics or initiatives we could focus ...

The Internet is for everyone. But for that to be a reality, we need more than to connect the unconnected: we need to make access meaningful. ...

The World Wide Web, known today simply as the Web, emerged as one of the major services to run on top of the Internet. By Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and a principal ...

Why should I care about IPv6? IPv6 is the future of the Internet, and without it the Internet can no longer grow. We have been growing the commercial Internet for decades using IPv4 address space. At ...

Q1: What is the “New IP” proposal? Who is promoting it and supporting it? A: Originally, “New IP” was a set of proposals that were submitted by Huawei to the ITU-T’s Telecommunications Standardization ...

Artificial intelligence is a technology that is already impacting how users interact with, and are affected by the Internet. In the near future, its impact is likely to only continue to grow. AI has ...

Responsible data handling means applying ethical principles of transparency, fairness and respect to how we treat the data that affects people’s lives. It can protect our privacy and autonomy and ...

A series of enacted and proposed revisions to South Korea’s Telecommunications Business Act (TBA) spell out new interconnection rules for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Value-Added Telecom ...

In 2014, African Union (AU) members adopted the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection (“the Convention”).[1] To facilitate implementation of the Convention, the ...

Most people paying attention would expect that the cost of cybercrime has gone up in recent years. But a new report has put a number on it: Worldwide cybercrime costs an estimated $600 billion USD a ...

The Internet Society’s 2030 Strategy embodies our mission: the Internet is a resource to enrich people’s lives and a force for good in society. Developed through an inclusive process led by our Board ...