31 Jul 2020 Building a digital rights movement in India
WACC is supporting a project in India that will help civil society sectors understand and address policy issues around digital rights, which have been greatly affected during the Covid-19 pandemic. The use by many governments of monitoring tools in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has raised...
07 Jul 2020 Digital literacy workshops empower Palestinian women in Gaza Strip
Sameera Zoroub, who graduated with a degree in media, used to think that her social media accounts were “secure and protected.” But when she attended a Digital Security workshop organized in late June by Community Media Centre, a Palestinian NGO, she realized that there was so much she didn’t know about safely navigating the mobile and online world. At the end of the...
19 May 2020 Publication explores ‘Spirit of Truth in a Digital Age’
What does it mean to be human in the digital age? What do advances in communication technology mean for communication rights and other human rights? “Do we live in a ‘post‐truth’ era?”
31 Mar 2020 WACC announces support for digital justice
As part of its efforts to promote communication rights around the world, WACC is proud to announce the launch of its new Communication Rights in a Digital Age Programme. The programme will support civil society organizations around the world working to advance digital media literacy and the use of open source...
18 Feb 2019 I Got Algorithm
How to prevent social networks from damaging the well-being of young people?...
04 Feb 2019 Data protection and googol fines
Data privacy, also called information privacy, is about what data in a computer system can be shared with third parties.
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19 Nov 2018 WhatsApp calls time on WhatsApp
Social media are accused of bringing about the demise of traditional journalism. They are used to tar news stories with the brush of “fake news” as loud-mouthed politicians eagerly point the finger at what they deem to be critical or unfavourable coverage.
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22 Oct 2018 Beware propaganda from the wireless industry
There has always been a suspicion that radio waves do more harm than good. With the arrival of the Internet of Things – wireless computing devices embedded in such everyday objects as fridges, washing machines and coffee makers – the scenario easily slips into one...
01 Oct 2018 When did you last take a break from social media?
According to a 2018 research report from the Pew Research Centre on trends in social media use in the United States, 74% of Facebook users in that country visited the platform at least once a day, and 51% did so several times a day. ...