11 Feb 2021 WACC Statement on World Radio Day 2021
On World Radio Day (February 13), WACC celebrates the resilience and adaptive capacity of radio as a medium of communication. Each year, WACC is proud to partner with dozens of grassroots...
10 Feb 2021 WACC Membership Campaign
Warm greetings from the WACC Secretariat. We are looking forward to continuing our committed efforts this year to enable and promote communication for all. To strengthen our collective efforts, we also...
10 Feb 2021 A hard look at digital justice in the Philippines
WACC partner Computer Professionals Union-Philippines has launched a website that will serve as an online platform for identifying and addressing key digital issues in the country, which has been dubbed...
09 Feb 2021 On reducing harm, improving democratic expression on the internet
By Philip Lee, WACC General Secretary. Published by The Hill Times, February 9, 2021. Click to read the full opinion piece....
08 Feb 2021 Time to regain public trust in the media
American citizens are not alone in realising that press freedom is under attack. Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Brazilians and Filipinos – to name just a few – are also deeply concerned. They can all learn from PEN America which has put forward An Agenda for the Biden-Harris Administration called “Free Expression and the First 100 Days” (19 January 2021). In a plea to defend and promote press freedom in the U.S., PEN calls for affirmative steps to undo the damage to Americans’ attitudes toward the press and to shore up press freedom and respect for the role of professional media in the U.S.
27 Jan 2021 WACC joins Global Forum for Media Development
WACC Global is now member of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), an international network of about 200 journalism and media development organisations from more than 70 countries, which...
27 Jan 2021 Working for WACC, ‘I felt like I was part of a global community,’ says intern
When she began her stint last September as an international development intern at WACC, Sohailia Saywack said she expected to be “deeply immersed” in the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Project...
24 Jan 2021 Argentina: Making Access to Communication more Affordable
Affordability a major hurdle in ensuring equitable access Today, access to the internet and mobile phones is critical for people everywhere. Still, 40% of the world’s population has no access to the internet[i], with countries such as India (50%), Ethiopia (81%), and Brazil (29%) having significant portions of their population classified as “unconnected”[ii]. In terms of mobile telephony, while access has increased significantly—there were an estimated 5 billion cellphone users as of 2019, only 45% of mobile phone users in developing countries have access to a smartphone.
18 Jan 2021 Silencing Trump, preserving free speech?
Following the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, the social media platforms Facebook and Twitter, followed by other online platforms, suspended and then banned President Donald Trump’s accounts due, as Twitter put it, “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
13 Jan 2021 New Year Message from WACC’s President
Dear WACC Members and Partners, We enter this New Year2021 like many others in the past, full of hope and promise. However, unlike previous years we are entering 2021 loaded with...