Nojus Saad is an Internet changemaker. His work with Internet Society and his foundation is impacting the Internet of today and tomorrow.

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Canada's Online Harms Act should be an example of how to protect the fundamentals of the Internet while improving online safety.

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Protect children online by supporting end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger. Join us in the fight against weakening online protection for kids in Nevada.

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In a field that often lacks gender balance, it’s vital to highlight women's fundamental role in the Internet’s past, present, and future. 

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Want to build a community network but don't know where to start? Look no further than the Community Network DIY Toolkit.

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Women in Mali are bridging the unemployment gap by learning practical skills in Internet Society hands-on training courses.

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In just under 10 years, IXPs helped the DRC improve its Internet accessibility and started the country on its digital journey.

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Do you know how you're keeping your kids safe online? Using encryption, there are simple changes you can make as a family to stay safe.

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The NDSS Symposium returns to San Diego, USA, from 26 February to 1 March 2024. Discover the topics and sessions and register today.

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In Manipur, India, residents had to live their lives without the Internet for over seven months when they experienced an Internet shutdown.

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The Internet Society and ICANN partnered to help empower IXPs in Africa to improve Internet access by making it faster and more affordable.

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If any two people across the world from each other access the Internet at the same time, will they experience the same thing? To answer this question, some people may point out that people in China experience something much different than the rest of the world because of content filtering and the Great Firewall. Others […]

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Should the governments of Texas and Florida decide whether and how online discussion sites can moderate their posts? Let’s say you have an online community about the town you live in, and someone starts posting off-topic messages about some other town or city, should you be able to remove those messages? Or if you have […]

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If you needed to send a letter to your neighbor, you wouldn’t choose to send it via airmail across the continent and back first. Yet, this is how Internet traffic is routed in some parts of the world. For example, it’s not unusual for Internet traffic in Africa to first travel to Europe before ending […]

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Partnering with the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), we believe that MANRS will continue to be further established as the globally recognized benchmark for global routing security.

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Technical communities are our best partners to create a global movement of experts working together to build a stronger and more resilient Internet.
Explore how you can start your own group to share best practices, get training, and collaborate to co-create solutions to local technical challenges.

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The European Commission is playing politics with the global Internet. It’s time it clearly rejected the idea of “network usage fees” once and for all. What is the European Commission doing? In February 2023, the European Commission launched a public consultation on “The future of the electronic communications sector and its infrastructure,” a highly anticipated […]

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Ulukhaktok Community Network

Canada’s Northwest Territories has 33 communities, many of which are home to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis individuals. The territory’s vast geography and remote nature of many of the communities has made it difficult to introduce fast, affordable, and reliable Internet due to expensive costs of infrastructure and a lack of economic incentive to build robust infrastructure in the far North.

But in 2023 the community of Ulukhaktok celebrated the launch of a DIY Internet access solution that offers universal access and—if replicated in other communities—would contribute to local Internet resiliency and help prevent people from losing access to the Internet when they need it most.

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No one in their right mind would now want to start up a high-tech company in the UK. With a last-minute addition to the Online Safety Bill (OSB), the UK government made it clear that startups are no longer welcome in the UK. Previously, the OSB applied to “regulated services” that had to be above […]

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Every day as I get my son ready for daycare, I recite seven words: “Hey Google, what’s the weather like today?” The results from this now-‘ritual’ search dictate what he’ll wear, what type of extra clothes I will pack, and whether we’ll need a jacket for the bike ride. Whatever way you seek to learn […]

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