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03 Jul 2025 WSIS+20: North America region sponsors Canadian communication researcher as member of WACC Global delegation

Posted at 12:42h in Digital Justice, News, WACC North America, WSIS+20 0 Comments

Laine McCrory, a graduate student at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University, has been selected by the WACC North America (WACC-NA) Regional Executive Committee as the recipient of its scholarship for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High-Level Event 2025 in Geneva on...

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02 Jul 2025 WACC to advocate for digital justice at World Summit on Information Society +20

Posted at 09:07h in Digital Rights, News, WSIS+20 0 Comments

WACC and partners will champion a people-centred digital transformation at the World Summit on the Information Society +20 High-Level Event (WSIS+20) in Geneva on 7–11 July. With a seven-member delegation of staff and national partners from the Global South, and in collaboration with leading international...

30 Jun 2025 Beyond Connectivity – Advocating Community at the World Summit on the Information Society

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Today, 30 June, is “World Social Media Day” – a commemoration created by the website Mashable in 2010 that celebrates the transformative power of social media. That transformation – with all its positive and negative real world impacts – is part of the information eco-system...

27 Jun 2025 Which path forward at the crossroads of global internet governance?

Posted at 14:13h in Digital Justice, News 0 Comments

WACC Europe president Ralf Peter Reimann reflects from the Internet Governance Forum 2025 concluding today on the choice facing the international community about the internet of the future: cooperation and communication rights or unilateralism and profit first. The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) – founded in...

16 Jun 2025 All the lies, distortions, and fake news fit to print

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“All the news that’s fit to print” was a motto adopted by American newspaper publisher Adolph S. Ochs – an immigrant from Germany – when he took over The New York Times in 1895. It signified the newspaper’s commitment to accurate, impartial, and ethical news...

12 Jun 2025 Apr 2025

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12 Jun 2025 Jul 3

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Agenda Minutes of Oct 3, 2024 Meeting General Secretary Report Going Concern Document 2024 Consolidated Audited Financial Statements Q1 – January to March Reserves and Investment Policy Funding Actions Document Management Actions Document .

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11 Jun 2025 New WACC intern wants to help highlight voices of those otherwise unheard

Posted at 12:35h in Gender, GMMP, GMMP 2025, News 0 Comments

Esta Yee, a fourth-year undergraduate student in sociology and psychology at the University of Toronto, has recently joined WACC for a summer internship as a project and research assistant with the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). During the eight-week internship Yee is assisting with coordination...

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06 Jun 2025 New WACC publication offers guide for putting communication rights at heart of digital governance

Posted at 17:21h in Digital Justice, News, WSIS+20 0 Comments

At a time when trust in institutions and digital systems is at an all-time low, WACC has launched a new position paper, Taking a Progressive and Decolonial Approach to Digital Ecosystems, calling for a paradigm shift in global digital governance. The paper urges civil society...

05 Jun 2025 The wild west of AI regulation

Posted at 11:00h in Comment, Digital Justice 0 Comments

The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act intended to deliver the President’s domestic agenda. Among the provisions is a 10-year moratorium on states from regulating artificial intelligence. It reads: “…no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce, during the...