17 Aug 2020 India and COVID-19: A communication failure
By Vincent RajkumarAs India grapples with COVID-19, confused and often disempowering communication has aggravated our present predicament.
As India grapples with COVID-19, confused and often disempowering communication has aggravated our present predicament.
[caption id="attachment_27939" align="alignleft" width="185"] MD 2020/3[/caption] Media Development 2020-3 Expanding Public Communication Spaces In times of crisis, such as COVID-19, information saves lives. Accurate and trustworthy messages are needed so that people know...
By Parminder Jeet Singh
Understanding the nature of the emerging digital economy and society, and recognising people’s collective rights to their data, can help to determine how society’s data and digital intelligence-based roles should be divided across public, community and private sectors.
Ce traité prévoit la protection et la promotion des langues régionales et minoritaires historiques. Son élaboration est justifiée, d’une part, par le souci de maintenir et de développer les traditions et le patrimoine culturels européens, d’autre part, par le respect du droit imprescriptible et universellement reconnu de pratiquer une langue régionale ou minoritaire dans la vie privée et publique.
At the 51st Festival Visions du réel Nyon (April 17 – May 2, 2020), the interreligious watched and discussed the 14 films of the competition for long films due the Covid-19 situation online and awarded its Prize of CHF 5’000, donated by the Swiss Catholic Church, the Reformed Churches in the French-speaking part Switzerland (CER) and its Media Department Média-pro, and the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, to the film Off the Road / Fuera del camino directed by von José Permar (Mexico/USA 2020).
The theme of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2020 is “Covid-19 and Indigenous peoples’ resilience”. WACC is strengthening the communication outreach of Indigenous communities in order to bring about greater preparedness and resilience in...
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...
WACC Global is taking part in a campaign across Africa to promote family farming and its essential role in supporting food security and sustainable development. Yenkasa Africa, a regional communication for development and rural...