Cédric Leterme
Le 25 novembre dernier, en marge de l’Internet Governance Forum (IGF), à Berlin, un réseau d’activistes et d’intellectuels a publié un « manifeste pour la justice numérique » intitulé « un Appel à prendre en main notre avenir numérique ».1 L’objectif ? Se réapproprier un « pouvoir numérique » aujourd’hui concentré...
Warsaw (Poland) 2019
At the 35th International Film Festival Warsaw 11-20 October 2019, the award of the Ecumenical Jury went to Omar ve biz (Omar and Us) directed by Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er (Turkey, 2019).
Motivation: The contact with two Syrian refugees leads a...
In 2019, a year marked by divisive politics, attacks on journalists, xenophobia, digital surveillance and harassment, and other threats to freedom of information and democracy, WACC Global continued to make a positive difference, especially among vulnerable people and communities around the world.
With WACC’s support, 79...
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Surveillance and loss of privacy are watchwords in the digital transformation of societies worldwide.
Who is watching us and for what purposes? Who is infringing private spaces and closing down public spaces? When it comes to communication infrastructures and technologies, accessibility and affordability are no longer enough, simply because neither governments nor corporate entities can be trusted to play fair.
A project supported by WACC Global has trained more than 100 Indigenous broadcasters and members of the Indigenous community of Muellamués, Colombia, in producing radio programmes on peace, self-governance, gender equality, and human rights.
The project was organized by the Fundación para la Promoción de la Cooperación Internacional...
WACC ’s Centre for Communication Rights has co-published Expanding Shrinking Communication Spaces, a new e-book on communication rights and sustainable development for a digital age.
The 130-page page book – which is intended for development practitioners, policy makers, and communication rights activists – takes a historic look at communication...