21 Aug 2026 AI accountability: Before or after the fact?
All of civil society has a moral duty to speak up and ensure that conversations about AI include the voices of those at the margins, writes WACC General Secretary Philip Lee....
21 Aug 2026 Voices and choices: Why we all need to be involved in decisions about AI
AI governance is too important to be left only to powerful tech companies or individual governments, reflects WACC Deputy General Secretary Sara Speicher post–Geneva Digital Week 2026....
26 Jun 2026 WACC to highlight community voices at key UN meetings on AI governance, information society
A WACC delegation will advocate for a common digital future rooted in communication justice at an upcoming trio of major international events set to shape global digital governance in the years ahead. The Global Dialogue on AI Governance, the WSIS Forum 2026, and the AI for...
17 Feb 2026 New Media Development examines common ground between communication justice and climate justice
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...
15 Dec 2025 How far are we on the path to a people-centric, inclusive, and development-oriented Information Society?
After all, that is the vision of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), whose +20 outcomes will be finalized by UN member states this week (December 16–17). Both at the WSIS+20 High-Level Meeting in July in Geneva and in the negotiations involved in drafting...
12 Nov 2025 6 questions to reclaim the digital agenda beyond WSIS+20
Digital justice advocates need to get ahead of the technological curve and reclaim the digital agenda for all. This is the conclusion of WACC's latest Conversation Circle in the wake of WSIS+20, the 20-year review of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society. The...
03 Nov 2025 Let’s not forget that climate change is a justice issue
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...
08 Sep 2025 GMMP 2025 Urges Bold New Strategy for Media Gender Equality, 30 Years After Beijing
Three decades after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, progress towards gender equality in and through the world news media continues to flatline, according to newly released findings from WACC’s 2025 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). The Highlights...
08 Sep 2025 Reinventing multilateralism through communication rights
Have you ever read through the agenda of a United Nations General Assembly? The 80th regular session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow, 9 September. Under the theme, “Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,” the provisional agenda has 174 main...
14 Aug 2025 New Media Development looks at how AI can serve humanity responsibly
With “Artificial intelligence: Friend or foe?” WACC’s quarterly journal takes a communication rights lens to the digital technology that is re-shaping our world.Artificial intelligence is here to stay, notes Media Development editor Philip Lee in the 2025/3 issue. Technology continues to advance, and its effects...