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...
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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...
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In September 2024, the United Nations adopted a “Global Digital Compact“ at the Summit of the Future in New York City....
