Pulse Blog

Decision-makers and advocates can use Pulse to identify weaknesses in their local Internet ecosystem and make evidence-based, public policy decisions to address these.

Measuring the performance of decentralized networks is necessary to make the performance and adoption of Web 3.0 protocols and networks comparable to those we use today.

Once infrastructure denial is in play, its use to enforce international sanctions is in play as well.

2022 will be remembered as a year in which conflicts and crises shaped our collective attitudes toward infrastructure and the Internet in interesting ways.

In the spirit of the new year, here is a list of Internet evolution, disruption, and technology developments that the Pulse team will be keeping a keen eye on in 2023.

Hiding operational failures in darkness helps nobody.

In 2021, a fourth focus area was published on Internet Society Pulse. We called it “Internet Centralization”. Today we’ve changed the name to “Market Concentration” and we wanted to explain why.  The concept of centralization can be seen as the degree to which an activity within a given set of relationships is dependent on a […]

[Note: On 2 August 2022, we changed the name of the Centralization focus area to Market Concentration. Find out why here.] The Internet is built on a decentralized model. Its many network operators make independent decisions about how to interconnect, and the core functions and decisions required to keep the Internet running are distributed among its participants using open standards and protocols. This decentralized architecture, where power and […]