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...
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 civil...
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 2006...
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 of...
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 to...
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...