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The digital landscape is changing fast—faster than many of us can track. From the rise of AI-generated misinformation to the growing environmental toll of our online lives, the ethical challenges of digital communication are more urgent than ever. To help civil society stay informed and...

Karuara, People of the River, directed by Stephanie Boyd and Miguel Araoz Cartagena, has been given the WACC–SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2025. This feature-length documentary gives voice to an Indigenous community in Peru’s northern Amazon region whose survival depends not just on climate justice, but...

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...

The availability of funding for international development is on the decline. The United States, the world’s largest international development donor in historical terms, recently announced massive foreign aid cuts. It also dismantled much of its institutional capacity to deliver development programs and humanitarian assistance and...

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...

Media Development 2025-2 Last Chance for Communication Justice? WSIS+20 may be the last chance to establish a lasting and meaningful rights-based framework for global communications which is effective, and which enables people everywhere to be seen and heard. A peaceful and just future for all...

The much anticipated World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) takes place in Geneva, Switzerland, 7-11 July 2025. WSIS+20 is the second review of the outcomes of the original WSIS, which had two phases: Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005. At that time, WACC held the...

In September 2024, the United Nations adopted a “Global Digital Compact“ at the Summit of the Future in New York City. The Compact is a non-binding international agreement that seeks to foster collaboration between governments, technology companies, the technical community, and civil society to help...

Association for Progressive Communications At the conclusion of the 2024 Internet Governance Forum (IGF), organisations and individuals from civil society, the private sector and the technical community called on all governments, institutions and organisations to affirm the vision of the World Summit on the Information...

Global Digital Justice Forum The Global Digital Justice Forum, a coalition of civil society organizations from the Global Majority, decries the tightening stranglehold of political and corporate authoritarianism on the internet. The unchecked power of the Broligarchy—a handful of Silicon Valley firms operating in sync...

Foro Global de Justicia Digital El Foro Global de Justicia Digital, una coalición de organizaciones de sociedad civil del Sur global, denuncia el creciente dominio del autoritarismo político y corporativo sobre internet. El poder desenfrenado de la “Broligarquía” (un puñado de empresas de Silicon Valley...

Forum mondial pour la justice numérique Le Forum mondial pour la justice numérique, une coalition d’organisations de la société civile principalement issues du Sud Global, dénonce la mainmise de plus en plus étroite de l’autoritarisme étatique et des multinationales sur internet. Le pouvoir incontrôlé de...

O Fórum Global de Justiça Digital O Fórum Global de Justiça Digital, uma coalizão de organizações da sociedade civil de alcance global, condena o domínio cada vez maior do autoritarismo político e corporativo na Internet. O poder descontrolado da Broligarquia – um punhado de empresas...

Sarah Macharia “It is not enough to just reflect on progress, we must reignite the process.” – ECOSOC president, H.E. Bob Rae. Speech at the opening of the 69th CSW. 10 March 2025 Political declarations adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...

Irene León La niña de los ojos del capitalismo del siglo XXI se llama inteligencia artificial -IA-. En ella los poderes corporativos han depositado sendas expectativas, atribuyéndole un papel central en el guion de la recomposición capitalista, especialmente en la conceptualización del capitalismo digital.1 La...

Thousands of volunteers gathered evidence of representation and portrayal of women and men in the news in some 120 countries on 6 May during the 2025 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). Held 30 years after the inaugural GMMP, the 2025 edition of monitoring was the...

When I started to think about World Press Freedom Day (3 May) this year, my mind – and fingers on the keyboard – went first to the existential crisis facing the traditional media industry, battered as it is from so many economic, political, technological, and...

Indigenous activists in eight Latin American countries can better defend their lands by using more professional and secure methods to collect data and evidence, thanks to a project by WACC partner PAKKIRU, the Kichwa Nation in the Pastaza region of Ecuador. The School of Communication...

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...

Water and digital technologies – we can’t live without them. But while people in many parts of the world are running short of water, digital technologies are consuming more and more. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google operate data centres that take vast amounts of water from...