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...
WACC members, friends, and partners have a unique chance to promote communication rights in practice on a global stage by voting for network entries nominated for the WSIS Prizes 2025.The contest, run by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), recognizes activities that leverage...
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...
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...
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...
The latest issue of Media Development, WACC’s quarterly journal, brings together touchstone documents on communication for a better future from over nearly two decades. The documents reveal a clear vision for the democratization of communication that has not yet been attained—and thus are a call for...
WACC's Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) has been nominated for the 2020 World Summit on Information Society’s 9th Annual Awards. The GMMP was one of 353 projects nominated out of 806 submitted projects from around the world. Held every five years since 1995, the GMMP is the largest advocacy...
Sobering words for those who still believe that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are the panacea for the world’s ills. In “Developing Countries Losing Out To Digital Giants” (IPS News, 17 October 2018), Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury write:
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