07 Sep 2026 From the bottom up: Rethinking climate communication
We need a new approach to climate communication – a bottom-up perspective that understands communication as a right. ...
24 Aug 2026 Data centres, rare earth minerals, and complacency
The impact of data centres on the environment concerns everyone. Data centres consume massive amounts of electricity – often placing considerable strain on local power grids. Data centres generate significant heat and electronic waste, and millions of gallons of water are needed daily to cool...
17 Aug 2026 Truth Under Fire: WACC Annual Report 2025 traces action to advance communication rights
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WACC’s latest Annual Report brings to life our collective work to enable people to be seen and heard at a time when too many are made invisible and silenced....
28 Oct 2019 Measures to tackle disinformation and propaganda in Europe
Recently, the European parliament voted in favour of stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation and at upgrading the EU’s anti-propaganda unit.
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21 Oct 2019 Media reform is alive and kicking!
In September 2019, in a victory for the principles underlying media democracy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rebuked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by overturning the agency’s latest attempts to eliminate long-standing limits on local-media ownership.
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21 Oct 2019 ‘It takes a village to keep children safe both online and offline’
Children now represent one third of all Internet users.
This number is expected to increase once developing countries – where most of the world’s children live –become digitized.
This is both exciting and worrisome. Exciting because it has been established that connectivity opens doors to new...
30 Sep 2019 How the 5G wireless dividend can help connect those left behind
Private, public, and civil society actors should work together to encourage more sustainable financing of universal access efforts...
12 Aug 2019 From manufacturing consent to manufacturing consensus
An influential book on communications in the 1980s was Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication, by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. It proposed a “propaganda model” as a way of understanding how the mass media system intersected with the U.S. economy, political system, and...
06 Aug 2019 It’s vital to be able to “read” social media
In an era when misinformation and “fake news” abound on social media, it is important to understand where people get their news.
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29 Jul 2019 Big data’s big brother: Real-time data processing
Walk around any city and your face will be caught on camera and might even be added to a facial-recognition database. That data can now be processed in real-time. Regulations about how it can be used are minimal and generally weak.
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