We are pleased, honored to inform the Libyan technical community, especially the Internet Society’s approval of the organization’s official presence among its members. The Internet community is those who have the right to vote, influence, and decide in the global Internet community.

The Internet Society is a global non-profit organization founded in 1992. It includes major organizations, non-governmental institutions, and international companies influential in the technology, Internet, and news sectors, universities, colleges, and academies, to name a few (Ericsson, Amazon, Google, Juniper, AT&T)., Facebook, Mozilla, Nokia, AFRINIC) and other major global institutions. 

The Internet Society works to govern the Internet, free it from any restrictions, share technologies and strategies, and bring the voice of communities to global decisions regarding the Internet. This influence reaches the United Nations, ICANN, social media companies, governments, and agencies. 

We have been working since May 25, 2021, during the preparations for the National Information Technology Day, and we received approval and congratulations for the celebration on the third of June. This is a very good indicator of the success of the National Day and its global resonance. Following this, we held several remote meetings via the Microsoft Teams application, By the grace of God, the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology has been approved as a member of the Internet Society, starting from 7/1/2021, so that we can be one of the drivers of Internet communities globally, and we can obtain plans to introduce new technologies, bring strategies, and participate in global reports. 

Our presence as a Libyan community entity in the Internet community will allow us to participate in defining the community’s priorities, strategies and plans, vote in community councils, bring studies, strategies and experiences to the Libyan community, form professional relationships with international institutions in the same field, and many other possibilities and benefits. 

This announcement will be followed by other posts and articles in which we detail the tasks and benefits of our presence in the Internet community on both the local and global technical levels. 

We are pleased, honored to inform the Libyan community in general and the technical community in particular of the approval of the #Internet_Society on the presence of the organization among its members officially, and among those who have the right to vote, influence and decide in the Internet community globally. 

The #Internet_Society is a global non-profit organization, founded in 1992. It includes major organizations, non-governmental institutions, international companies influential in the technology and Internet sector, experts, universities, colleges and academies, to name a few: Ericsson, Amazon, Google, Juniper, AT&T, Facebook, Mozilla, Nokia, AFRINIC and other major international institutions. 

The Internet Society works to govern the Internet, free it from any restrictions, share technologies and strategies, and bring the voice of communities to global decisions regarding the Internet, whose influence reaches the United Nations, ICANN, companies that own social media platforms, governments, and bodies. 

Our presence as a Libyan community entity in the Internet community will allow us to: participate in determining community priorities, strategies and plans, vote in community councils, bring studies, strategies and experiences to Libyan society, form professional relationships with international institutions in the same field, and many other capabilities and benefits. 

We also cooperated during the first year of our membership in the Internet community on amendments and additions to the first drafts of the general policy for e-mail for Libyan institutions, which was issued pursuant to Government Resolution No. 563 of 2021. Shortcomings and loopholes in technology and communications legislation were discussed, and some communications and correspondence with icann in the Arab region to clarify the status of the national domain. ccTLD or what is known as ly. 

We are all proud of this membership and this presence on global arenas in accordance with Libyan legislation and law, and we are awaiting the next announcement of the organization’s membership in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), so that the organization can be a bridge of knowledge and experience between the Libyan civil technical community and various societies, and the transfer of technical transformation strategies. 

All thanks and appreciation to those who supported the organization in reaching these advanced stages. 

Board of Directors of the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology. 

The organization translated the report of OpenSignal – an independent analytics company specializing in determining mobile network experience – about the 2021 Global Mobile Network Experience Award for the Best Global Emerging Mobile Networks, and the organization translated the partial report related to the local companies represented by Libyana and Al-Madar Al-Jadeed. 

This step aims to contribute to local and international technical content, especially content in the Arabic language.