WACC project partners from across Latin America and the Caribbean aim to further knowledge of how a rights-based approach to communication can respond to urgent challenges like digital power concentration and Big Tech alignment with populism, when they gather on 19–22 March in Quito, Ecuador. The...
A new WACC-supported initiative aims to generate widespread awareness of the environmental protection and climate justice efforts of local communities across the Brazilian Amazon, placing their solutions, voices, and concerns at the very heart of policy responses. “Local Voices for Climate Justice in Brazil” is being...
While the lens of climate justice has gained a foothold in climate policy spaces, “the world also needs to pay attention to how communication and information deficits undermine the struggle for climate justice,” writes Media Development editor Philip Lee. The response to climate change, “the most...
Yorman Galviz, a WACC-supported community reporter at this year’s UN climate summit, reflects on how COP30 became a space to corroborate the importance of local and community media in democratizing information and giving space to the diversity of actors working for climate justice. Leer en español The...
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...
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 –...
Over the past few years, climate change has become a lighting rod issue in many countries of the Global North. Populist right-wing figures like Donald Trump (USA), Nigel Farage (UK), Alice Weidel (Germany) and Santiago Abascal (Spain) have either denied climate change, sought to undermine its...
In recent years, a lot has been said about the “extractivist” nature of today’s digital information ecosystem. While there has been some focus on the environmental impact of digital devices, the extractivism accusation has been directed primarily at the economic model of Big Tech, which...
WACC’s Annual Report 2024 “Enabling a Future for All” brings to life the organization’s collective work last year to advocate for digital justice, gender justice, and climate justice, and to put people at the center of digital societies.“WACC has added its voice to the struggle...
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 rooted...