When we talk about privacy online, we usually picture companies harvesting our data, platforms tracking our movements, governments peering into our accounts. We rarely picture a blind woman in ...

The WSIS Forum is the world’s leading annual multistakeholder platform for advancing digital development, convening governments, civil society, the private sector, and academia to shape global digital ...

Only 36% of people in Africa are online, according to 2025 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimates. But every year, more are connecting, creating new opportunities to access education, ...

Almost every adult in Africa has a mobile phone, but not all have access to the Internet. Community networks help connect underserved communities online with locally built and managed infrastructure.

“I used to have a hi-fi, a television set, a VCR, and a video game console,” says one Internet Society member. “Now, my phone does all that and more.” From the very beginning of the Internet, people ...

I am a technical solutions consultant at Happiest Minds Technologies, where I help organizations adopt innovative digital solutions. I also serve as vice president of the Internet Society Bengaluru ...

The Internet Society will only support attendance (i.e., provide air tickets, accommodation, and a stipend) for one peering event per fellow. Selected fellows will be scheduled to attend the event ...

The Internet is one of the most significant advances of our time. It brings benefits to every single person on the planet, whether they’re connected or not. It opens up new possibilities, expands our ...

We believe the Internet is for everyone and needs everyone’s participation to work at its best. We achieve greater impact and go farther with mission-driven partners at our side. This is more than ...

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 ...

The outage did not directly impact Seacom, whose network spans the East African and South African coastlines. However, due to outages to its partner networks on the West Coast—WACS and MainOne—it had ...

On 12 May 2024, two fiber optic submarine cables—SEACOM and EASSy—were damaged off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, significantly reducing Internet connectivity in multiple East African ...