A data dump occurs when platforms demand exhaustive personal details upfront, creating friction for users while offering little additional value to governance.  

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The Burkina Faso Internet Exchange (BFIX) is helping to keep Internet traffic local and build the country's Internet resilience.

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Peering is a fundamental part of how the Internet works. It allows networks to exchange traffic directly, reducing reliance on intermediaries. This improves performance, lowers costs, and increases network resilience.

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While many of us take for granted the ability to watch live Olympic events, many fans around the world are excluded due to a lack of connectivity.

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When a host city is selected for the Olympics, major work begins to update the necessary infrastructure to accommodate thousands of athletes and millions of spectators. The amount of human traffic coming into a host city is so great that it can completely disrupt the flow of events and the lives of locals if proper […]

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The recent outage in West Africa caused by submarine cable damage could have been a lot worse. A strong community ensured it wasn't.

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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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Our two new funding programs reinforce our commitment to support communities around the world in gaining greater access to the Internet.

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The African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF)—Africa's biggest annual peering event— takes place from 23-25 August in Kigali, Rwanda.

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The 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in August 2021, just as many people were starting their day. Over the course of several days, the quake and its aftershocks devastated the country, leaving more than 300 people dead, injuring hundreds more, and leveling homes, schools, and churches. But Haiti’s Internet exchange point managed to stay online, […]

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The annual Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum has achieved a lot since it launched in 2013. Here are just a few examples of what it has helped to foster.

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IXPs can be set up in various different ways. Here we showcase three different IXP models in Asia Pacific.

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To increase awareness of the benefits of peering, and to encourage the development of more IXPs in Central Asia, we ran a series of online peering events during 2021.

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We created a tailor-made course to train young Ethiopians on how to set up and manage networks efficiently.

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Here are some of the key findings in our report looks at COVID-19's impact on the Internet in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Pakistan.

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After several years of stagnation, Bolivia’s IXP, PIT Bolivia, now doubles its exchanged traffic every six months

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GOMIX is the third Internet Exchange Point in the Democratic Republic of Congo, part of the plan to connect more people to cheaper, higher-quality Internet.

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More than 4,000 people have taken the NetOps course so far – and next year we're launching NetOps 2.0 to take it even further.

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A new Internet Society study shows local Internet exchange points (IXPs) play a pivotal role in ensuring quality of access to local content and in improving the quality of experience for users in the Asia-Pacific region. The study, which measures the impact of local Internet exchanges across the Asia-Pacific region on local content hosting and […]

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Demand for the Internet has been on the rise since the advent of COVID-19, and it’s a trend likely to stay with us for long afterwards. Even before the pandemic, we heard about the fourth industrial revolution—how it was beginning to transform governance, management, and production systems across the globe. Mitigating climate change and fostering […]

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