17 Feb 2021 2020 WACC Annual Report
WACC Annual Report 2020...
10 Feb 2021 A hard look at digital justice in the Philippines
WACC partner Computer Professionals Union-Philippines has launched a website that will serve as an online platform for identifying and addressing key digital issues in the country, which has been dubbed “the social media capital of the world,” but remains a “starter” when it comes to...
09 Dec 2020 General Secretary’s message on Human Rights Day 2020
Human Rights Day 2020 Message by Philip Lee, WACC General Secretary Fake news and disinformation, sanctioned by some political leaders and spread by social media, are major threats to democracy today. In late 2016, Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the word of the year, defining it as...
25 Nov 2020 Indigenous radio: ‘A lot has been achieved, but much remains to be done’
Indigenous community radio stations have been “gaining traction around the world,” but many remain hamstrung by legal, financial, technical and administrative challenges, according to a new study, Are Indigenous Voices Being Heard? launched online Wednesday, Nov. 25. Commissioned by WACC Global, Cultural Survival, and the Indigenous Media...
03 Nov 2020 Mexico: Project enables refugees, asylum seekers to be seen and heard
Refugees and asylum-seekers seeking protection in Mexico will soon be producing podcasts about their lives and experiences with help from a WACC-supported project initiated by its local partner, La Sandia Digital. In the absence of stories featuring the voices and perspectives of people on the move,...
21 Oct 2020 Climate change stories by Kenyan citizen journalists gain traction
October 21, 2020 — Local radio and television stations in Kenya have been giving airtime to stories produced by the Farm Forestry Smallholder Producers Association of Kenya (FF-SPAK), which has partnered with WACC and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to support Promoting Traditional Climate Change Mitigation...
17 Mar 2020 WACC, SIGNIS postpone European ecumenical TV festival amid coronavirus pandemic
The 20th European Festival of Religious TV and Online Programmes will not go ahead as scheduled this June in Helsinki, Finland. The postponement follows a wave of event cancellations worldwide due to the novel coronavirus Covid-19, which has affected more than 140 countries, including Finland. The festival, which was...
24 Feb 2020 Civil society has a chance to regain the high ground
Surveillance and loss of privacy are watchwords in the digital transformation of societies worldwide. Who is watching us and for what purposes? Who is infringing private spaces and closing down public spaces? When it comes to communication infrastructures and technologies, accessibility and affordability are no longer enough, simply because neither governments nor corporate entities can be trusted to play fair.
17 Feb 2020 Giving migrants a voice – and others a history lesson
National Public Radio (NPR) in the United States is demonstrating the importance both of giving a voice to migrants in media, and of ensuring the independence of the public broadcasting platform. As reported by another public broadcaster, BBC (“The immigrants telling stories history missed” 10 February 2020, two young radio producers, one with Iranian and the other with Palestinian backgrounds, are leading a new podcast series that highlight stories that most people have missed in their history lessons.
19 Dec 2019 WACC, CAMECO share vision of ’empowering people and communities on the margins’
WACC Deputy General Secretary Sara Speicher recently presented a workshop on “Upholding Human Rights and Social Justice in the Digital Age” during the 50th anniversary international conference of the Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) held in Aachen, Germany. The conference, Communicating From and With the Margins, was held November...