The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual, regional, multi-stakeholder ICT conference held by the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG). It is where the African Internet community—drawn from ...

Few technologies are more critical to the Internet than the Domain Name System (DNS), which translates domain names into IP addresses. DNS Security Extensions — DNSSEC — helps to ensure that you are ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is a technology that is already impacting how users interact with, and are affected by the Internet. In the near future, its impact is likely to only continue to grow. AI has ...

This is a discussion paper. This paper represents the Internet Society’s emerging opinion, but does not represent a final Internet Society position. Instead, we intend it as a means to gather ...

We get better answers to global questions when a range of experts and interests can meaningfully take part in the discussion. Many people talk about ‘the multistakeholder model’ as if it is a single ...

As proponents of new interconnection rules in Europe champion a new settlement regime, based on a model of “sending party pays”, there is one important question looming over the debate: why are ...

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is the latest wave of integration of technology into our lives and surroundings. This rapidly-spreading new generation of devices brings cameras, microphones, sensors, ...

The Internet Society’s 2030 Strategy embodies our mission: the Internet is a resource to enrich people’s lives and a force for good in society. Developed through an inclusive process led by our Board ...

Yesterday, we published a blog post sharing the news and some initial details about Amazon’s DNS route hijack event to steal Ethereum cryptocurrency from myetherwallet.com. In this post, we’ll explore ...

At the Internet Society we work towards developing the Internet to be open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. A big part of this work is growing the Internet to those who need it the most, ...

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 ...