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Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) is a collaborative community committed to building an open, inclusive and sustainable information society.
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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 - 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
  • 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
  • Georgia
  • 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?

  • Alexander Kashumov
    Bulgaria
    BlueLink Information Network, Access to…
  • Sarbani Belur …
    India
    IIT Bombay
  • Vassilis Chryssos
    Greece
    Sarantaporo.gr
  • Fabrizio Scrollini
    Uruguay
    Data
  • Alexandrine Pi…
    United Kingdom
    Privacy International
  • Carlos Rey-Moreno
    South Africa
    Association for Progressive…
  • Lucas Bulgarelli
    Brazil
    Internet Lab
  • Federico Rodríguez
    Uruguay
    Observatic
  • Carly Nyst
    United Kingdom
    Privacy International
  • Marta Solano
    Spain
    SETEM
  • Roberto Carlos…
    Peru
    Ministerio de Cultura de Perú
  • Javed Hussain
    Pakistan
    Sindh Community Foundation
  • Anna Anet Sambou
    Gambia
    SHOAW Gambia
  • J. Carlos Lara
    Chile
    ONG Derechos Digitales
  • Renato Lo Cigno
    Italy
    University of Trento
  • Emmanuel Bikobo
    Cameroon
    PROTEGE QV
  • Bardhyl Jashari
    Macedonia
    Metamorphosis
  • Thaweeporn Kummetha
    Thailand
    Thai Netizen Network
  • Heike Jensen
    None
    N/A
  • Amy K. Mahan
    United States
    APC
  • Walid Al-Saqaf
    Yemen
    Individual
  • Azra Causevic
    Bosnia Herzegovina
    LGBT*IQA Association Okvir
  • Angela Daly
    Scotland
    Strathclyde University
  • María Julia Mo…
    Uruguay
    ObservaTIC

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

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"I would say that its highest value is in the global visibility it has and the facts that smaller, remote countries are reported and in this way become visible and part of the global conversations."
- Valentina Pellizzer, one world platform, Bosnia Herzegovina - GISWatch author
"The GISWatch Project provides very useful insights into today's information society through the lens of different country experiences. A reader is allowed to properly gauge the ongoing interaction between technology and human rights, and its impact on people's day-to-day lives."
- Jamael Jacob, Foundation for Media Alternatives, Philippines- 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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