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3 young community reporters stand on a stage in front of a COP30 banner with the Amazon rainforest

12 Dec 2025 A grassroots approach to climate information integrity: Empowering local voices as key actors post-COP 30

Posted at 19:05h in Climate Justice, News, One Year Projects

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...

Building with words "COP30 Brasil Amazonia" and "United Nations Climate Change" juxapositioned with poster of WACC delegation with a blue tropical bird and the words "Sin justicia comunicativa, la justicia climatica no es posible"

11 Nov 2025 WACC community media partners at COP30 set to amplify local climate voices

Posted at 12:25h in Climate Justice, News, One Year Projects

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...

Kemly Camacho speaks while standing in front of a banner with "communication rights", "internet" and other related words in different colours

06 Aug 2025 WSIS+20: Digital justice demands collective action

Posted at 19:42h in Blog, Digital Justice, News, One Year Projects, WSIS+20

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...

24 Jul 2025 WSIS+20: Digital justice must mean power, access, and dignity for all

Posted at 09:58h in Blog, Digital Justice, News, One Year Projects, WSIS+20

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...

A group of about 25 people sit and stand on the ground in front an earthen, thatched-roof building and watch something on a laptop screen sitting on a post. The light from the screen illuminates their faces in the dark.

15 Jul 2025 Financing digital justice: Turning vision into reality

Posted at 11:44h in Comment, Digital Justice, WSIS+20

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...

Colourful graphic of four people holding up a globe with data networks swirling around it and a sun behind it, an upright clenched fist to the left and a plant to the right. Overlaid text: "Communication for All: From Connectivity to Community. WACC at WSIS+20".

02 Jul 2025 WACC to advocate for digital justice at World Summit on Information Society +20

Posted at 09:07h in Digital Rights, News, One Year Projects, WSIS+20

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...

21 May 2025 Communication justice must be at heart of decolonizing international development

Posted at 16:57h in Comment, Communication Rights

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...

13 May 2025 Now is the time to take action for digital justice

Posted at 15:18h in Media Development 2025/2

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...

Group picture outside of the 30-some participants in WACC's partner forum in Kathmandu, Nepal

19 Mar 2025 WACC partners outline pathways to social justice–oriented implementation of Global Digital Compact

Posted at 11:05h in Digital Justice, News, One Year Projects

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...

19 Feb 2025 Grassroots communities, climate change, and the Global Digital Compact

Posted at 10:09h in Media Development 2025-1

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...