Over the past few years, climate change has become a lighting rod issue in many countries of the Global North. Populist right-wing figures like Donald Trump (USA), Nigel Farage (UK), Alice Weidel (Germany) and Santiago Abascal (Spain) have either denied climate change, sought to undermine...
Between 10 and 21 November, a delegation of 15 WACC-supported community media reporters and activists from across the Amazon region were in Belem, Brazil, to cover the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 30). WACC program director Lorenzo Vargas explains why...
A WACC-supported team of 11 community media reporters is on the ground at the United Nations climate change conference COP30. Their mission? To unpack why communication justice must be at the heart of climate justice. Led by our partners Latin American Network of Radio Education...
Who hears the people’s voices at a United Nations global policy summit? For Kemly Camacho from Sulá Batsú Cooperative, a WACC partner in Costa Rica, the recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High-Level Event where she was part of WACC’s delegation drove home...
Who is a United Nations global policy summit designed for and whose voices have priority? Xian Guevarra from the Computer Professionals’ Union, a WACC partner in the Philippines, brought a grassroots voice for digital justice as a member of WACC’s delegation at the recent World...
Advancing digital rights, connecting billions, and democratizing data will cost money. After the last week’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High Level Event it is clear: if we want to achieve digital justice and inclusion, we need to discuss how this process will...
WACC and partners will champion a people-centred digital transformation at the World Summit on the Information Society +20 High-Level Event (WSIS+20) in Geneva on 7–11 July. With a seven-member delegation of staff and national partners from the Global South, and in collaboration with leading international...
The availability of funding for international development is on the decline. The United States, the world’s largest international development donor in historical terms, recently announced massive foreign aid cuts. It also dismantled much of its institutional capacity to deliver development programs and humanitarian assistance and...
Global Digital Justice Forum The Global Digital Justice Forum, a coalition of civil society organizations from the Global Majority, decries the tightening stranglehold of political and corporate authoritarianism on the internet. The unchecked power of the Broligarchy—a handful of Silicon Valley firms operating in sync...
Will the United Nations Global Digital Compact (GDC) meets its aim of fostering an inclusive, open, safe, and secure digital future for all? Its success or failure hangs on how it is put into practice, say WACC and its partners, in a new implementation roadmap...