The AWII is a non-profit, non-governmental regional organization committed to independent conduct research on the Internet in the Arab World.

The Internet with its uniqueness inspires everything we do at The Arab World Internet Institute.

We aim to be a regional Internet policy centre of excellence, promoting understanding of challenges and opportunities for action in the Internet industry.
We focus on internet related topics and its evolution and use in the Arab region, and this includes areas such as Internet access, access to information, intellectual property, privacy, cyber security and Internet governance.

We work to achieve this mission by involving community members, users groups, public agencies, business leaders, and educational institutions.

Our institute covers countries from the Arab World region members of the Arab League : Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.