21 Aug 2026 Local communities in the driver’s seat for communication networks
Carlos Baca, member of the WACC delegation to the Geneva Digital Week 2026, shares examples of people-centered, inclusive communication in real life....
10 Aug 2026 El Niño and the fight over what it means
With El Niño sharpening climate disinformation, the time is now to invest in community media – the key channels informing people and building trust....
10 Jul 2026 Access, agency, voice: Communities in Global South are shaping another technological world, WACC session tells WSIS Forum
Is there only one possible technological future? A WACC session at the WSIS Forum 2026 this week challenged that idea, bringing together voices from Tunisia, Mexico, and the International Telecommunication Union to argue that communities in the Majority World must be empowered to shape digital...
15 Jun 2026 Reclaiming the beautiful game – and communication – for the common good
It's time for football and communication to benefit communities, not generate profits, argues WACC Director of Programs Lorenzo Vargas. ...
13 Jan 2026 Notes on COP30: Communication is fundamental to climate justice
For Nicolle Mendoza, a WACC-supported community reporter at the most recent UN climate summit, the conviction that communication is fundamental to climate justice marked each day at COP30. Leer en español Being part of the community media delegation to cover COP30 was an eye-opening and deeply enriching...
06 Jan 2026 Notes on COP30: Time to pass the microphone
Steven Santiesteban, a WACC-supported community reporter at the most recent UN climate summit, realized during COP30 that the climate crisis is also a crisis of listening, a crisis that demands a paradigm shift in whose voices and knowledge are amplified. Leer en español The air in Belém...
26 Dec 2025 Notes on COP30: A community communication experience on the global stage
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...
12 Dec 2025 A grassroots approach to climate information integrity: Empowering local voices as key actors post-COP 30
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...
11 Nov 2025 WACC community media partners at COP30 set to amplify local climate voices
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 –...
19 Jul 2025 WSIS+20 panel urges steps to protect communication, information integrity in humanitarian contexts
In times of crisis, communication must be recognized as a fundamental right and integrated as an essential service, with priority given to local, community-led approaches, panelists agreed at a WSIS+20 session co-organized by WACC and the CDAC Network last week.Under the theme “Communication is humanitarian...