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A WACC-supported project in Mexico has placed media’s social responsibility for gender-sensitive reporting – particularly of violence against women – onto the public agenda.

We need a new approach to climate communication – a bottom-up perspective that understands communication as a right.

Caribbean media organisations are approaching issues like AI with a deliberate regional lens, reflects WACC President Embert Charles.

Leon Lewis found an opportunity to learn, contribute, connect, and see himself as part of the wider Caribbean media community at the 2026 CBU assembly.

WACC is saddened to learn of the death of Professor Jörg Becker, a long-time WACC associate. The fields of mass and political communication are the poorer for his passing.

People and communities must have a say in the design and development of digital technologies and in the policies that regulate them.

Get inspired to take action for digital justice with the presentations from the international symposium "Our Common Future: Advocating for Digital Rights and AI Accountability."

Media Development 2026-3 Our common digital future: By the people, for the people Today’s dependency on digital technologies is a given. The issues now are how to use them for the common good, how to mitigate their dangers and potential for harm – especially AI...

Oberhausen (Germany) 2026 At the 72nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 28 April to 3 May 2026 two ecumenical juries, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, awarded prizes in the International Competition and the International Children’s and Youth Film Competition. The Prize in the International Competition...

Statement The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG), the UNESCO UniTWIN Network on Gender, Media and ICT and the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) urge the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance and the AI for Good Summit to commit to an AI...

The following summary of the WSIS Forum 2026 outcomes, held in Geneva, Switzerland, 6-10 July, was issued by the ITU Secretariat. The first Forum since the WSIS+20 Review carried a single, unmistakable message: the time for commitments has passed, and the decade of implementation has...

Gissela Dávila Cobo El debate, la reflexión y el intercambio de experiencias fue la tónica del III Festival JUNTANZA, desarrollado en Quito, en las instalaciones del Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina, CIESPAL, evento en el que se pudo colocar en...

Rebecca Ryakitimbo The African continent stands at a technological crossroads. As the global race for Artificial Intelligence dominance intensifies, Africa is moving beyond the role of a passive consumer of algorithms. Instead, a continent-wide movement is emerging, one that seeks to reclaim sovereignty over data,...

Christina Dahl-Jensen Digital technologies have become central to political authority, economic organisation and social life worldwide. Artificial intelligence now accelerates this transformation, creating new opportunities for health, education and governance while simultaneously amplifying inequality, enabling surveillance and eroding civic space. The period from 2026 to...

J. Ignacio ´Iñaki` Chaves G. “Los progresos científicos más extraordinarios, las proezas técnicas más sorprendentes, el crecimiento económico más prodigioso, si no van acompañados de un auténtico progreso social y moral, se vuelven, en definitiva, contra el hombre” (Pablo VI) Entre tanta guerra, tanto odio...

Nino Todua When we speak about the digital future, we often imagine technology first: fast internet, new platforms, artificial intelligence, automated systems, or applications that make everyday life easier. But from the perspective of Georgia, the digital future is not only a question of technological...

In his visionary book La technique published in 1954, French philosopher Jacques Ellul wrote, “Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option, but a necessity imposed on all...

The impact of data centres on the environment concerns everyone. Data centres consume massive amounts of electricity – often placing considerable strain on local power grids. Data centres generate significant heat and electronic waste, and millions of gallons of water are needed daily to cool...

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.

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.