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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...

Is there only one possible technological future? A WACC session at the WSIS Forum 2026 this week challenged that idea, bringing together voices from Tunisia, Mexico, and the International Telecommunication Union to argue that communities in the Majority World must be empowered to shape digital...

“It’s time to stop saying ‘giving a voice to the voiceless’.” The conference room in Panama City was packed with thousands of communication practitioners for the opening of the International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit 2026. WACC’s director of programmes, Lorenzo Vargas, had...

Will artificial intelligence (AI) help or hinder the survival of minority languages into the next century? According to Ethnologue, a database of the world’s 7,168 living languages, almost half are endangered. Over 88 million people speak a language that may not survive this century except...