In times of crisis, communication must be recognized as a fundamental right and integrated as an essential service, with priority given to local, community-led approaches, panelists agreed at a WSIS+20 session co-organized by WACC and the CDAC Network last week.Under the theme “Communication is humanitarian...
Advancing digital rights, connecting billions, and democratizing data will cost money. After the last week’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High Level Event it is clear: if we want to achieve digital justice and inclusion, we need to discuss how this process will...
Communication must be recognized not merely as a tool for development, but as a human right that is central to human dignity, agency, and justice, WACC General Secretary Philip Lee told participants at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High-Level Event on Wednesday. Despite...
Local and global voices for digital justice were at the forefront of a WACC side event to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 on Tuesday co-organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC).WACC, in collaboration with WCC, is leading ecumenical voices for a...
Laine McCrory, a graduate student at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University, has been selected by the WACC North America (WACC-NA) Regional Executive Committee as the recipient of its scholarship for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High-Level Event 2025 in Geneva on...
WACC and partners will champion a people-centred digital transformation at the World Summit on the Information Society +20 High-Level Event (WSIS+20) in Geneva on 7–11 July.With a seven-member delegation of staff and national partners from the Global South, and in collaboration with leading international civil...
Today, 30 June, is “World Social Media Day” – a commemoration created by the website Mashable in 2010 that celebrates the transformative power of social media. That transformation – with all its positive and negative real world impacts – is part of the information eco-system under...
WACC Europe president Ralf Peter Reimann reflects from the Internet Governance Forum 2025 concluding today on the choice facing the international community about the internet of the future: cooperation and communication rights or unilateralism and profit first. The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) – founded in 2006...
At a time when trust in institutions and digital systems is at an all-time low, WACC has launched a new position paper, Taking a Progressive and Decolonial Approach to Digital Ecosystems, calling for a paradigm shift in global digital governance. The paper urges civil society to...
WACC’s Annual Report 2024 “Enabling a Future for All” brings to life the organization’s collective work last year to advocate for digital justice, gender justice, and climate justice, and to put people at the center of digital societies.“WACC has added its voice to the struggle...