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...
WACC welcomes the strong commitment to gender equality signalled by the Canadian government with its release of Foundations for Peace: Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security - 2023 to 2029. With its emphasis on the need for women’s inclusion and meaningful involvement in...
Regulation of digital media may be understood as a means for expanding the space for freedom of expression. There is however a spectrum of reasons for opposition to such regulation, from concerns about potential for abuse by authoritarian States to global big tech’s interest to operate...
WACC’s 2022 Annual Report “Building a Network and a Movement for Social Justice” highlights the organization’s vital, collective work throughout the globe to remove obstacles to communication for all. The newly released publication presents activities from the first year of WACC’s strategic plan for 2022–2026 to...
An analysis of news coverage of the Wet’suwet’en and Coastal GasLink Pipeline conflict by nine Canadian media outlets shows that they have not only reported the issue differently, but that only two of them practiced a “more neutral and objective” reporting, says a recent media...
In light of the many health and economic challenges affecting migrants everywhere, WACC is proud to announce its continued support for a network of community radio stations working to meet the information and communication needs of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia. Venezuelan migration represents the biggest...