“Coming from rural area is like being cursed.” This OpEd headline did more than just grab attention when it was first published several years ago. It ultimately transformed an entire community. In the ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops open standards through transparent processes with one goal in mind: to make the Internet work better. A large international community of network ...

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 ...

Simply put, Internet governance is how the Internet is managed. We advocate for a multistakeholder approach, which means that all interested actors can participate in inclusive, consensus-driven ...

With the rise of the Internet in recent decades, its impact on society has been transformative at multiple levels – including in communication, access to knowledge and social interaction. While early ...

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.

In June 2020 we published a new report “Anchoring the African Internet Ecosystem – Lessons from Kenya and Nigeria’s Internet Exchange Point Growth”. It gives an update on this study published in 2012.

It’s rare a story about the Internet goes all the way back to the 1800s. But in the case of The Independent & Sovereign Nation State of Hawai‘i, it does. In 1893, the United States helped overthrow ...

The Internet is a global resource, but regional and local needs often vary depending on the location. We work with our community worldwide to think globally and act locally, ensuring we’re all working ...

What is DNS, and Why is it Critical? The domain name system (DNS) [1] is fundamental to everything we do online. Serving as a directory lookup for the Internet, it makes the Internet easier for humans ...

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the protocol used throughout the Internet to exchange routing information between networks. It is the language spoken by routers on the Internet to determine how ...

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 ...