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Reports

2024 special edition - WSIS+20: Reimagining horizons of dignity, equity and justice for our digital future
2021-2022 - Digital futures for a post-pandemic world
2020 - Technology, the environment and a sustainable world: Responses from the global South
2019 - Artificial intelligence: Human rights, social justice and development
2018 - Community Networks
Action Steps: A decade of civil society advocacy in the information society
2017 - National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
2017 Special Issue: Unshackling expression - A study on laws criminalising expression online in Asia
2017 Special Issue - Internet governance from the edges: National and regional IGFs in their own words
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 - Internet rights and democratisation
2011 - Update I: Internet rights and democratisation
2011 - Update II: 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
  • Digital rights
  • 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 advocacy
  • Internet and corruption
  • Internet governance
  • Internet rights
  • Knowledge rights
  • Meaningful access
  • 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
  • Belgium
  • 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
  • Cuba
  • Democratic Republic of
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Égypte
  • El Salvador
  • Équateur
  • Espagne
  • España
  • Ethiopia
  • Éthiopie
  • France
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Georgia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Guatemala
  • 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?

  • Pavel Antonov
    Bulgaria
    BlueLink.net
  • Alexandra Crosby
    Australia
    University of Technology, Sydney
  • Carlos F. Baca…
    Mexico
    Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías…
  • Fred Mweetwa
    Zambia
    Macha Works
  • Lagartata n
    Macedonia
    n/a
  • Muthuri Kathure
    Kenya
    ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa
  • Gisela Perez de Acha
    Mexico
    Derechos Digitales
  • Asser Khattab
    Lebanon
    Smex
  • Alphonse Ntita…
    DMTIC (Dynamique Multisectorielle pour…
  • Parkpoom Tripatana
    Thailand
    Parkpoom Tripatana
  • Julia Brungs
    The Netherlands
    International Federation of Library…
  • Paul Plantinga
    South Africa
    Human Sciences Research Council
  • Yahia Shukkeir
    Jordan
    Alarab Alayawm
  • Assumpció Guasch
    Spain
    Pangea
  • Diana C. Hernández
    Panama
    IPANDETEC
  • Tim Schütz
    Germany
    Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Laura Bedford
    Australia
    Deakin University
  • Monserrat Lagu…
    Mexico
    sontusdatos
  • Hudson Lockett
    China
    Danwei and Media Monitor for Women…
  • Kanchana Kanchanasut
    Thailand
    Internet Education and Research…
  • Amina Wadoud
    Egypt
    n/a
  • Nicolás Echániz
    Argentina
    AlterMundi
  • Ugo Vallauri
    United Kingdom
    The Restart Project
  • Drew Mitnick
    United States
    Access

Blog

  • A video on GISWatch and ESCRs
  • Global Information Society Watch 2016 on economic, social and cultural rights and the internet to be launched in Mexico
  • Watching the watchers: A global monitor of the information society since 2007
  • 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

Review

2024 special edition - WSIS+20: Reimagining horizons of dignity, equity and justice for our digital future

"The number of reports published on human rights on the internet in the last year alone is staggering. Who has the time to read them all? The good news is you don’t have to. If you take the time to read one report, make it GISWatch 2011. "
- Matthias C. Kettemann, Co-Chair of the Internet Rights & Principles Coalition/Institute of International Law, University of Graz
"There is genuine need for the new spaces opened by this project , which at the same time sharing different country experiences building plat form for solidarity and supporting different communities to share their challenges and to show the state violations of its international HR obligation. The report development for me is a learning process and opportunity to meet other activists and defenders from different country sharing the same values and principles"
- Liemia Eljaili Abubkr - Freelance Journalist - Sudan – GISWatch author
"I think GISWatch is valuable for researchers and activists to take a view of general global situation and compare the situation of each country."
- Byoung-il Oh, Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet, South Korea
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