Media literacy is the first and most important step to address communication rights challenges like misinformation, polarization, and misuse of AI. Yet media education must also be tailored to the specific context. For UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week, WACC Asia President Peter Singh...
We all can take control and make a difference when it comes to digital justice. And being media literate is an important first step. In this regional reflection for UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week, WACC Africa Secretary Lekan Otufodunrin explores why each of...
When ChatGPT was first unveiled as a publicly accessible application in November 2022, I was skeptical of the general usefulness of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Even more, I was concerned about the ethical implications. By WACC Deputy General Secretary Sara Speicher Will it magnify misinformation in a...
Amid escalating global clampdowns on civic space and ruthless legal attacks on journalists and the media, Trust Conference 2025 asked a pressing question: Is it too late to save democracy, which stands on free and independent media that hold the powerful to account and enable...
With “Artificial intelligence: Friend or foe?” WACC’s quarterly journal takes a communication rights lens to the digital technology that is re-shaping our world.Artificial intelligence is here to stay, notes Media Development editor Philip Lee in the 2025/3 issue. Technology continues to advance, and its effects...
Local and global voices for digital justice were at the forefront of a WACC side event to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 on Tuesday co-organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC).WACC, in collaboration with WCC, is leading ecumenical voices for a...
Laine McCrory, a graduate student at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University, has been selected by the WACC North America (WACC-NA) Regional Executive Committee as the recipient of its scholarship for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High-Level Event 2025 in Geneva on...
WACC Europe president Ralf Peter Reimann reflects from the Internet Governance Forum 2025 concluding today on the choice facing the international community about the internet of the future: cooperation and communication rights or unilateralism and profit first. The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) – founded in 2006...
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act intended to deliver the President’s domestic agenda. Among the provisions is a 10-year moratorium on states from regulating artificial intelligence. It reads: “…no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce, during the...
A socially isolated young person in the United States turns to ChatGPT for advice on how to deal with depression. A coffee entrepreneur in Finland asks AI for the exact mix of beans to blend the perfect cup. Robots take food orders from diners in...