The digital landscape is changing fast—faster than many of us can track. From the rise of AI-generated misinformation to the growing environmental toll of our online lives, the ethical challenges of digital communication are more urgent than ever.To help civil society stay informed and prepared,...
Karuara, People of the River, directed by Stephanie Boyd and Miguel Araoz Cartagena, has been given the WACC–SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2025. This feature-length documentary gives voice to an Indigenous community in Peru’s northern Amazon region whose survival depends not just on climate justice, but also...
WACC’s Annual Report 2024 “Enabling a Future for All” brings to life the organization’s collective work last year to advocate for digital justice, gender justice, and climate justice, and to put people at the center of digital societies.“WACC has added its voice to the struggle...
The availability of funding for international development is on the decline.The United States, the world’s largest international development donor in historical terms, recently announced massive foreign aid cuts. It also dismantled much of its institutional capacity to deliver development programs and humanitarian assistance and announced...
Is the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) in July the last chance for communication justice?The high-level event will review progress in the past 20 years toward the WSIS vision of a people-centered, inclusive, and development-oriented information society.It may the final opportunity to establish...
[caption id="attachment_63858" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2025/2[/caption] Media Development 2025-2 Last Chance for Communication Justice? WSIS+20 may be the last chance to establish a lasting and meaningful rights-based framework for global communications which is effective, and which enables people everywhere to be seen and heard. A peaceful and just...
The much anticipated World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) takes place in Geneva, Switzerland, 7-11 July 2025. WSIS+20 is the second review of the outcomes of the original WSIS, which had two phases: Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005. At that time, WACC held the...
[caption id="attachment_63872" align="aligncenter" width="800"] WACC partners gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal, at a forum entitled “Communication Rights: Building Blocks for Digital Justice”. Photo Credit: AMARC AP/WACC[/caption] In September 2024, the United Nations adopted a “Global Digital Compact“ at the Summit of the Future in New York City....
Association for Progressive Communications At the conclusion of the 2024 Internet Governance Forum (IGF), organisations and individuals from civil society, the private sector and the technical community called on all governments, institutions and organisations to affirm the vision of the World Summit on the Information Society...
Global Digital Justice Forum [caption id="attachment_63884" align="alignright" width="300"] Many actors in civil society worry that digital technologies, including those based on AI, can be appropriated by governments, security services, and global corporations to repress, control, manipulate, and profit from ordinary people – who have their own,...