Internet Society

EU Legislative Interests

In the context of the European Union, we target the following policy and legislative initiatives (list not exhaustive, which can grow if there are more policies affecting the Internet): • EU legislative initiatives with impact on Internet governance, in particular but not limited to the Digital Networks Act, Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Governance Act, the AI Act, NIS 2, EUid, Cyber Resilience Act, Digital Networks Act, Digital Fairness Act, initiatives related to cost-sharing proposals, any policy proposal that includes an age-verification component. • EU initiatives linked or with impact on encryption. • EU initiatives linked or with impact on community networks and enhancing the internet infrastructure and its resilience.

Communication Activities

The Internet Society organises and participates in various events linked to internet governance and related policy implementation in Europe. We also publish and make aware reports on the latest developments of the Internet. The list below is indicative of our most recent activities. EuroDIG: The Internet Society is an institutional partner to the regional European Dialogue on Internet Governance, EuroDIG, alongside the European Commission, the Council of Europe and other non-governmental organisations. We pro-actively take part in the planning of the event and contribute to the programme. National Internet Governance Forums (IGF): The Internet Society drives and participates in several national IGFs initiatives in European Member States, often through our Chapters. Internet Impact Report 2022: The Internet Society publishes annually a Internet Impact Report highlighting and assessing the latest technical and policy developments impacting the Internet. The 2021 report “Staying Connected in a Changing World” can be downloaded here: https://www.internetsociety.org/impact-report/2021/ The 2022 report "'Safeguarding the Network of Networks" can be downloaded here: https://www.internetsociety.org/impact-report/2022/ Policy briefs: The Internet Society publishes policy papers, reports and other documents for sharing insights and vision on how to achieve our mission. Our most recent publications are available here: https://www.internetsociety.org/policybriefs/ Internet Impact Assessment Toolkit: The Internet Society has created a toolkit that helps assess whether a law proposal, business decision or technology could impact the Internet, and how to prevent it from harming what the Internet needs to exist and thrive for all. Some Impact Briefs can be found here: https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/internet-way-of-networking/internet-impact-assessment-toolkit/ Monitoring of Internet shutdowns: The Internet Society publishes Pulse a website that monitors Internet shutdowns to help everyone understand the health, availability and evolution of the global Internet. More information is available here: https://pulse.internetsociety.org/

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Internet Society supports various initiatives and collaborates with other initiatives aligned with its mission. These include (list not exhaustive) the Global Encryption Coalition (https://www.globalencryption.org/), the Internet Technical Advisory Council (ITAC -- https://www.internetac.org/) to the OECD, the Internet Technical Collaboration Group (https://www.internetcollaboration.org/) and the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MNARS -- https://www.manrs.org/). Additionally, the Internet Society supports the activities of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF -- https://www.ietf.org/) and the Public Interest Registry (PIR -- https://thenew.org/). The full list of initiatives is available here: https://www.internetsociety.org/affiliated-sites/

Organisation Members

List of organisation members available at: https://www.internetsociety.org/about-internet-society/organization-members/list/ Internet Society has over 130 national chapters and Special Interest Groups. the full list is available at: https://www.internetsociety.org/chapters/ There are more than 110 active chapters across six continents. They provide unique regional perspectives on emerging Internet issues, The organisational as well as individual members of the Internet Society are based globally, currently present in 233 countries and territories.

Additional Information

Information of our budget can be found here: https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Internet-Society-Financials.pdf As you can see, 86.82% of our revenue comes from a single source, the Public Interest Registry, which is a non-for-profit organisation. There is no any other donor that contributes above 10% of the total budget. We could not find in the form the appropriate information box to disclose the fact that the Internet Society hires an intermediary to – among other tasks – represent our interests at EU level, according to the guidelines. The name of the firm is NOVE and the total annual cost pertaining to activities covered by the Transparency Register during our last closed financial year (2024) was EUR 24.000.