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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?

  • Jeff Deutch
    United States
    Tactical Tech
  • Alan Finlay
    South Africa
    Open Research
  • Iraildon Mota
    Brazil
    Comradio
  • Wolfgang Klein…
    Denmark/Germany
    University of Aarhus
  • Andrew Rens
    South Africa
    n/a
  • Raymond Onuoha
    Nigeria
    Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic…
  • Anonymous (Ind…
    indonesia
    GISWatch
  • Emilie Jabouin
    cameroon
    PROTEGE QV
  • Mondher Laabidi
    United States
    Arab World Internet Institute
  • Petra Molnar
    Canada
    International Human Rights Program,…
  • Sreekrishna Sankar
    India
    GPS Renewables
  • Juan Diego Cas…
    Colombia
    Karisma Foundation
  • Allana Kembabazi
    Uganda
    INITIATIVE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC…
  • Javier Ruiz
    United Kingdom
    Open Rights Group
  • Lira Samykbaeva
    Russia
    Gipi
  • Tafaol Alageb
    Sudan
    The Higher Council of Environment and…
  • Carlos Guerrer…
    Peru
    Independent
  • Kate Declerck
    Canada
    JMI Foundation and Fair Play
  • Roberto Masotti
    Italy
    Cattolica University in Milan
  • Yeo-Kyung Chang
    South Korea
    Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet
  • Noha Fathy
    Egypt
    independent
  • Isabek Asanbaev
    Kyrgyz Republic
    The Kyrgyz Chapter of the Internet…
  • Florencia Roveri
    Argentina
    Nodo TAU
  • Francis Monyango
    Kenya
    Independent

Review

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

"The project is very valuable and provides fantastic insight to the subjects as it tries to get first hand information from the writers from/within the countries in question. I think this way it creates an alternative resource to those that are prepared by Western institutions by going to these countries for few weeks only. Therefore GISWatch provides a much more authentic information."
- Gunes Tavmen, Hun Consulting, Turkey - GISWatch author
"GISWatch 2011 offers timely commentary on the future of the internet as an open and shared platform that everyone has the right to access."
- Frank La Rue, UN Special Rapporteur
"GISWatch is a unique experience, I think. Don´t know if there is a similar project in other fields. Having each year the possibility of tackling a particular issue of the field of rights and ICT, convoquing experts to analyse it from different perspectives and counting with about 50 countries in each edition, to get down that analysis to each particular territory is very valuable."
- Florencia Roveri, Nodo TAU, Argentina
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