Estimados miembros, socios y amigos de la WACC, Saludos cordiales desde la Secretaría General de la WACC. Los acontecimientos recientes han demostrado que los derechos a la comunicación son vitales para la vida, el sustento, la identidad y el sentido de pertenencia a una comunidad...
Media Development 2021-4 Communicating Climate Change The basic premise of public interest journalism is that people should be informed in a fair and balanced way about crucial matters that affect their understanding of the world they live in and that could affect their lives. As...
Mass and community media can unthinkingly reinforce stigmatisation and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. Beyond the important question of language and image, there are those of care, respect, support, and human dignity. As one writer in this issue comments, “HIV and AIDS...
Media Development 2025/1 Articles Media Development 2025-1 online magazine and pdfs MD 2025-1 Editorial Grassroots communities, climate change, and the Global Digital Compact Communicating ways to cope with climate breakdown What is said, what is not said,...
Championing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for advancing inclusive, safe, and reliable digital media spaces! As a global community of digital media makers – including independent media organizations, journalists, digital content creators and civil society groups using digital media for social impact – we recognize that AI...
A new WACC-supported study underlines the centrality of community radio to bridge communication and information gaps that hinder local communities in the Amazon from actively participating in forming environmental policy. The publication, Voices of the Amazon: An assessment of communication and environmental needs of the...
Philip Lee Reflections on digital technologies and artificial intelligence, their potential to change the nature of being human, and the unintended consequences of a Promethean quest for scientific knowledge. In his book Irish Nocturnes, philosopher and poet Chris Arthur observes the unease with which human...
The Amazon is being decimated — by the expansion of the agricultural frontier, by illegal economies linked to drug trafficking, and by an economic model that privileges mining and ranching and negatively impacts vulnerable communities. These activities are pushing deforestation levels towards 20%, a point...
World Association for Christian Communication WACC believes that communication plays a crucial role in building peace, security and a sense of identity as well as in promoting justice, mutual accountability and transparency. Communication, WACC believes, contributes to the common good. This conviction has led WACC...
By Donn J. Tilson Black swan events come as a surprise, have a major effect, and are dismissed afterward according to their historical significance – World War I, the 1918 influenza pandemic, 9-11. Add to the list the Corona-19 pandemic, which has disrupted world economies,...