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13 May 2025

Posted at 15:22h in Media Development 2025/2

[caption id="attachment_63858" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2025/2[/caption] 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...

13 May 2025

Posted at 15:21h in Media Development 2025/2

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...

13 May 2025

Posted at 15:20h in Media Development 2025/2

[caption id="attachment_63872" align="aligncenter" width="800"] WACC partners gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal, at a forum entitled “Communication Rights: Building Blocks for Digital Justice”. Photo Credit: AMARC AP/WACC[/caption] In September 2024, the United Nations adopted a “Global Digital Compact“ at the Summit of the Future in New York City....

13 May 2025

Posted at 15:19h in Media Development 2025/2

Association for Progressive Communications At the conclusion of the 2024 Internet Governance Forum (IGF), organisations and individuals from civil society, the private sector and the technical community called on all governments, institutions and organisations to affirm the vision of the World Summit on the Information Society...

13 May 2025

Posted at 15:18h in Media Development 2025/2

Global Digital Justice Forum [caption id="attachment_63884" align="alignright" width="300"] Many actors in civil society worry that digital technologies, including those based on AI, can be appropriated by governments, security services, and global corporations to repress, control, manipulate, and profit from ordinary people – who have their own,...