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16 May 2025 Seizing the day for communication justice: Latest Media Development focuses on upcoming WSIS+20

Posted at 11:05h in Communication Rights, Digital Justice, Gender, Media Development, News 0 Comments

Is the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) in July the last chance for communication justice?The high-level event will review progress in the past 20 years toward the WSIS vision of a people-centered, inclusive, and development-oriented information society.It may the final opportunity to establish...

07 Apr 2025 From therapy to coffee: Should we worry that AI is rewriting human roles?

Posted at 08:00h in Comment, Digital Justice 0 Comments

A socially isolated young person in the United States turns to ChatGPT for advice on how to deal with depression. A coffee entrepreneur in Finland asks AI for the exact mix of beans to blend the perfect cup. Robots take food orders from diners in...

19 Mar 2025 CSW69 panel calls for reform of global framework to safeguard women’s communication and digital rights

Posted at 18:53h in Gender, News 0 Comments

Binding frameworks and renewed action are needed to advance gender justice in and through the media 30 years after United Nations member states adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, concluded a parallel event co-organized by WACC at the 69th session of the UN Commission on...

Neema Majesia speaks into a microphone during the WACC Partner Forum 2024

15 Jan 2025 Nothing about us without us: Why digital justice requires communication rights

Posted at 15:28h in Blog, Communication Rights, Digital Justice, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

WACC partners met in Kathmandu, Nepal, last October to explore how communication rights are essential building blocks for social justice in our digital world. Here Forum participant Neema Majesia from KICTANet in Kenya reflects on her experiences and the event's call to create a digital...

Cover of Media Development 4/2024 with a round tabletop with a world map

19 Nov 2024 Latest Media Development focuses on global vision of digital justice

Posted at 13:54h in Communication Rights, Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Media Development, News 0 Comments

“A Global Vision of Digital Justice,” the most recent issue of WACC’s journal Media Development, delves deeper into the question of how democratic and inclusive governance frameworks can be designed for today’s digital information society. The United Nations Summit of the Future in September 2024...

A girl reaches for a computer mouse in front of two women in headscarves sitting in front of a computer while a third woman in a headscarf points to the computer screen. All look intently at the screen

05 Jun 2024 WSIS+20 Forum session outlines recommendations for gender-just digital governance

Posted at 10:20h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News, WSIS+20 0 Comments

A New Gender Deal should be included as part of the outcomes of the 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) if our digital future is to be an inclusive and empowering one for women and girls, panelists stressed at a...

ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin speaks at the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event

03 Jun 2024 WSIS+20 in 2025: A not-to-be-missed opportunity to guarantee a new democratic global digital governance framework

Posted at 12:38h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, News, WSIS+20 0 Comments

By Philip Lee, WACC general secretaryWinding up the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event (Geneva, May 27–31), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin said, “This week has shown, with the AI for Good Global Summit happening in parallel, that we are well on our way towards...

Green-colored graphic with "Gender Equality and Inclusion in Our Digital Future: A new gender deal for WSIS+20, 29 May, 17–17:45 CET" and portrait pictures of six panelists

28 May 2024 WACC session at WSIS+20 Forum to envision a gender-equal digital future

Posted at 10:11h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News, WSIS+20 0 Comments

With the aim to reimagine the digital landscape through a gender-just lens, WACC and the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) are organizing a session at the World Summit on the Information Society - WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event in Geneva. Themed "Gender Equality and Inclusion...

An Indigenous young man and woman in India sit on the floor and look together at their mobile phones

14 May 2024 Civil society urged to advocate for just digital future in WSIS+20 process

Posted at 12:06h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, News 0 Comments

Civil society organizations need to be active participants in multi-stakeholder dialogues to find solutions to current global challenges and to shape a just digital future, WACC expert Sarah Macharia urged the United Nations Civil Society Conference last week in Nairobi. Recent analyses clearly show that the...

Collage of three women seated, each holding a microphone and speaking. From left, a Black woman with curly hair and glasses wearing a black top, a Black woman wearing an orange top, and a Pakistan woman wearing a blue top.

31 Aug 2023 Digital justice means closing the gender digital gap, say WACC partners

Posted at 17:31h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

Gender integration — through inclusive policies and practical initiatives — is urgently needed in digital spaces, panelists concluded during a session on digitalization and intersectionality at the WACC partner consultation “Communication Rights: Towards a Digital Justice Agenda” in Nairobi, Kenya, in early August. Gender inclusion has...