A new initiative aimed at raising awareness about cyberviolence against women and creating a coalition of rights-based partners is highlighted in a new page on the WACC Global website. The...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) 11th Assembly will take place starting next week and WACC staff and members will be present, raising issues about digital justice and gender and...
On 5 July 2022, the European Parliament approved the final text of its Digital Services Act (DSA), the new rule book for moderating digital content. The DSA aims to limit the...
Media Development 2022-3Democratizing CommunicationRediscovering SolidarityFrom legacy media’s propaganda potential to the Internet’s “platform power”, how can we bring about global cooperation to build an alliance of democracies strong enough to...
The theme “Democratizing Communication, Rediscovering Solidarity” suggests that there is an essential link between people’s capacity to communicate their concerns and aspirations and their ability to bring about greater political...
By Victor Pickard The democratic world faces a wicked problem. Information and communication systems that people rely on for many facets of their daily lives have become increasingly antidemocratic, causing profound...
By Nicole K. Stewart “Metaverse” is an excellent word to describe the year 2022. Over the past few months, Disney hired a metaverse executive, J.P. Morgan opened a virtual lounge in...
By Anne Foerst Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way since the 1960 when it first appeared. When reflecting on modern AI, there are several ethical questions that come to...
By Amal Tarazi Ramallah-Palestine: Digital technologies are presenting exciting opportunities to facilitate the emergence of a stronger and more inclusive civil society. Around the world, active and large-scale efforts are being...
[caption id="attachment_47459" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Journalists at work in the media centre at COP26 as French president Emmanuel Macron addresses the conference’s World Leaders Summit. Glasgow hosted the United Nations climate...