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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.

Carlos Baca, member of the WACC delegation to the Geneva Digital Week 2026, shares examples of people-centered, inclusive communication in real life.

WACC partner Maroua Ghith left the WSIS Forum 2026 convinced of the need to ensure digital technologies celebrate diversity and empower communities.

The most recent online discussion hosted by WACC’s regional association in Europe unpacked Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, whose focus is summed up in its subtitle On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. Moderated by WACC Europe treasurer Katherine Shirk Lucas, the...

WACC’s latest Annual Report brings to life our collective work to enable people to be seen and heard at a time when too many are made invisible and silenced.

With El Niño sharpening climate disinformation, the time is now to invest in community media – the key channels informing people and building trust.

In this World Cup, we took home an invisible trophy. Outrage spread online, flowing parallel to the real-time streaming of the game.

Last week, Geneva hosted three meetings – each with the potential, in its own way, to reshape how the world communicates and relates. The inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance marked the first time, as speakers noted, that every UN Member State had a seat...