Access Now's Transparency Reporting Index features a record of transparency reports from today’s leading internet companies and telcos. The data includes company name, company type, geographical location of company headquarters, first release date, frequency of publication, and the report's URL.
The index is downloadable as a CSV file.
The Canadian internet registry publishes a yearly factbook on the Internet in Canada—the latest here. It includes data on domains and IP addresses, but also information on penetration and use.
This project was founded by the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future in 1999, and it has published five comparative reports (in the last one, 2013, the countries compared were Cyprus, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, and the US) on issues such as Internet use and non-use, information seeking behavior, access to online services, the internet and social connections, politics and the internet, media use, reliability and importance, user generated content, online entertainment and communication, and on
This consulting firm based in Guatemala has published since 2011 survey-based annual reports on the use of social networks in Central America (available upon registration).
Project of the Dubai School of Government’s Governance and Innovation Program. It provides updated data on the use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn—G+ and Youtube coming soon) in the MENA region, plus in-depth periodic reports.
Sponsored by Dubai’s Press Club, AMO claims to be “the most comprehensive and authentic source of data on the media sector in the Arab world”. It publishes periodic reports--which can be accesed upon registration--on the media in the Arab world, including the Internet and digital media, with country by country data.
This source publishes frequent reports, white papers, and presentations on diverse aspects of digital communications and activities, and with different geographical focus. These publications can be searched for here
This consulting/research company has been publishing since 2008 reports, based on weighted online surveys, on the state of social networks in Spain (Observatorio de Redes sociales) plus additional reports on the consumption of audiovisual material online, and the state of e-commerce and of online payment systems.
This “action-lab” conducts research on the Iranian Internet, focusing on filtering and on politics and social media, with a series reports on the Iranian elections in social media, and analyses of conservative bloggers. They have also published a report on the LGBT online community in Iran.
Pew offers an impressive array of reports on different aspects of online communication and its impact on American society. These reports are complemented by presentations and interactives. Pew also offers a series of basic indicators: broadband adoption, mobile adoption, and social media use.
