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The Power of Volunteers: Connecting an Indigenous Community in Panama
Community Networks
4 August 2025
The Power of Volunteers: Connecting an Indigenous Community in Panama
The Internet Society Panama Chapter had a plan. They would build the country’s first community network and bring the Internet...
Expanding Internet Access in Rural Latin America, One Course at a Time
Shaping Future of the Internet
3 June 2025
Expanding Internet Access in Rural Latin America, One Course at a Time
Our partnership with CITEL has helped to close the digital divide in rural areas across the Americas through hands-on...
Article 19 of the Marco Civil – Guarantee or Threat to the Future of the Brazilian Internet?
Supporting a Secure and Trustworthy Internet
8 April 2025
Article 19 of the Marco Civil – Guarantee or Threat to the Future of the Brazilian Internet?
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on 6 April 2025 in JOTA Jornalismo. It has been translated from...
Fostering Digital Literacy in Nicaragua
Closing the Digital Divide
30 January 2025
Fostering Digital Literacy in Nicaragua
In August 2024, the Internet Society Nicaragua Chapter bridged the digital divide in the small community of Reparto La...
Understanding and Identifying Scams: Digitally Empowering Older Adults in Mexico
Building Trust
15 January 2025
Understanding and Identifying Scams: Digitally Empowering Older Adults in Mexico
There is a generational digital divide, with older adults often lacking the training to use digital tools safely.To help...
Internet Exchange Points in Argentina: Network Infrastructure Improves the Balance of Trade
Internet Exchange Points
7 October 2024
Internet Exchange Points in Argentina: Network Infrastructure Improves the Balance of Trade
Internet Exchange Points (IXPS) have become vital assets in Argentina, where they ensure that data travels seamlessly, efficiently, and...
Resources
Promoting the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
Promoting the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
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Intermediary Liability Survey: Latin America
Executive Summary This report is a product of a crowdsourcing exercise designed to map current existing intermediary liability regimes...
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Community Networks in Latin America
Challenges, regulations and solutions to building and operating community networks in Latin America.
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Unleashing the Internet in the Caribbean: Removing Barriers to Connectivity and Stimulating Better Access in the Region
The nations of the Caribbean region are scattered over an area of more than 2.75 million square kilometres. These...
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Report from the Field: Post-Hurricane Connectivity in the Caribbean
We ask our community to join with us to both #ReconnectTheCaribbean, and also to work to ensure the networks...
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Ensuring Sustainable Connectivity in Small Island Developing States
This report aims to shed light on the key connectivity issues for SIDS nations and to help share knowledge...
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Connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Internet Exchange Points
This report takes stock of the development of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Latin America and the Caribbean, documenting...
Our Members
The Internet Society’s Latin America & Caribbean region currently counts 11,722 individual members, out of whom 7,162 (61%) are also members of one of our 26 Chapters in the region. (as of December 2020)
The Internet Society’s Latin America & Caribbean region currently counts 11,722 individual members, out of whom 7,162 (61%) are also members of one of our 26 Chapters in the region. (as of December 2020)
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