By Lydia Ma, WACC-Asia Secretary WACC-Asia Region held its executive committee meeting and leadership training in Taiwan April 30 – May 6. The meeting focused on: The new WACC strategic plan; Training of regional leaders; Increasing the capacity of WACC regional members and partners and...
Announcement: The WACC-Asia Executive Committee meeting which met soon after the Triennial Assembly at Yogyakarta, Indonesia has decided to encourage the members to implement the Yogyakarta Declaration in their own small way. While doing so, the Executive Committee also has decided to encourage its...
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...
N. Ramakrishnan In September 2024, the United Nations General Assembly unveiled the Global Digital Compact (GDC), a sweeping framework designed to shape the digital future.1 Heralded as a cornerstone of global governance, the Compact’s ambition is nothing short of revolutionary: to create a digital world...
Dina Gilio-Whitaker There is an old adage that the best way to really learn about a subject is to teach it. I would agree but with a caveat: one must begin with at least a baseline understanding of the topic at hand. Such was the...