WACC project partners from 17 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East have outlined a vision for a process of digital transformation rooted in justice and focused on the common good as the international community moves towards the 20-year review of the World Summit...
WACC project partners Africa, Asia, and the Middle East will focus on advancing digital justice in a world in digital transformation when they meet for a learning, exchange, and networking consultation on 1–3 August in Nairobi, Kenya. The gathering “Communication Rights: Towards a Digital Justice Agenda”...
WACC has launched a new quiz as a fun way for people to test their knowledge of justice issues related to digital technology. WACC Deputy General Secretary Sara Speicher and WACC Europe President Ralf Peter Reimann, together with WACC partner the Association of Protestant Churches and...
Organizations committed to equal, inclusive and sustainable development can take steps to promote a technology ecosystem rooted in human rights, agreed participants at a recent seminar exploring development and digital access co-organized by WACC and the CDAC Network. Information and communication technologies lacking a human rights...
The seminar “Development and Digital Access: Are we fostering equitable pathways to inclusion?“ on 11 May will explore how organizations and individuals committed to justice, democratic participation, and equality can promote a technology ecosystem rooted in human rights. WACC and the Communicating with Disaster-Affected Communities (CDAC)...
“AI, AI, AI!” — Is this how you feel about artificial intelligence? An online seminar on April 26 hosted by the WACC regional association in Europe offered rich perspectives for those struggling with the implications of digital transformation, for those seeking digital justice — and for...
“For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change”– Audre Lorde Audre Lorde’s admonition that the tools of oppression cannot be effectively...
The Digital Democracy Initiative (DDI) was launched on 28 March with a virtual event that explored how to amplify the voice of civil society in the digital age. The DDI takes up the pledge of the Danish-led Tech for Democracy initiative “to make digital technologies work...
Churches and civil society group must focus on questions of power around artificial intelligence (AI)—be that tech, political, gender, or racial power—and examine who is being included and excluded, concluded speakers at a 9 March webinar at the NGO CSW67 Forum running parallel to the...
Recent events had made it difficult to look forward, WACC President Embert Charles admitted when sitting down at the end of 2022 to pen a New Year’s message to those in the communication rights movement. He noted that, while the past year had seen the impact...