Longtime Internet champion Dr. George Sadowsky is the 2022 Jonathan B. Postel Service Awardee.

Selected for his leadership of the Internet Society Developing Countries Workshops in the 1990s, he helped enable the extension of the Internet to almost all developing countries.

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Numerous Internet Society experts will be taking part in the Internet Governence Forum 2021.

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Do you know someone who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution in service to the Internet community? Nominate them.

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Adiel Akplogan expanded Internet access across Africa. Jean Armour Polly redefined the role of the librarian as a digital educator and Internet advocate. Suguru Yamaguchi led cybersecurity research and helped found organizations to make the Internet more secure. All three have been recognized with many others by the Internet Hall of Fame for their groundbreaking […]

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Are you working to build a better Internet for women? Do you know initiatives that are promoting the development of digital skills for girls? Is your organization contributing to defend the Internet by helping women get equal access to leadership opportunities? If the answers are yes, we have something for you. The EQUALS Global Partnership […]

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What if future generations in 2030 learned about gender inequality in their history class and not in their lived realities? What can rural women achieve when included in digital society? What can we do now to ensure a future without a gender digital gap? Many women and girls are being left behind in digital development. […]

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A Need for More Gender-Disaggregated Data While Internet access and use is rapidly growing all over the world, women still face several challenges that hinder them from benefiting meaningfully from it. The proportion of women able to access and use the Internet is 12% lower than the proportion of men accessing and using it worldwide. […]

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Azacualpa Yamaranguila, a village in the Intibuca region in Honduras, is celebrating. And not for nothing. Last Saturday was a historic day as they accessed the Internet for the very first time. For many of us, the Internet is taken for granted, but for the Lenca people it started like a dream 6 months ago when the Internet Society Honduras’ Chapter gave them the idea of connecting their village to […]

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When we talk about the impact of the Internet and technology on future jobs, is important to bring youth to the center of the discussion: they will live the future of work and can contribute to shaping it. “The Internet and Jobs: A Youth Conversation,” held in Panama in June 2018, was a side event organized by the […]

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Celebrating the work of women who are making a difference in their communities by using the Internet is something that at the Internet Society we care about. Women are building businesses, learning new professions, sharing, and collaborating online. Women are creating new opportunities for themselves and their families by taking advantage of what the Internet […]

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Chapterthon 2017 on Digital Schools was recognized today as the winner of a 2018 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prize under the category “International and Regional Cooperation,” awarded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

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This year's Chapterthon winner is the Internet Society Turkey Chapter for the project Coding Sisters, which had the aim of optimizing the opportunities for girls to be involved in STEM field.

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