Category Archives: News

10 Jun ‘Made in Mexico’ transmitter built by WACC partner benefits Indigenous community radio Posted at 14:13h in News by Marites (Tess) Sison A civil society organization and WACC partner has assembled what is believed to be the first of its kind “Made in Mexico” transmitter, allowing Indigenous community radio stations to save about 200% on capital costs.   After seeing many community radio stations struggle with sustainability… Read more »

08 Jun Upgrading digital infrastructure to serve all people everywhere Posted at 00:00h in Comment by Saskia Rowley Ownership of mobile phones, especially smartphones, is spreading rapidly across the globe. Yet, there are still many people in emerging economies who do not own a mobile phone, or who share one with others. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2019… Read more »

03 Jun ‘Covid-19 knows no borders’ Posted at 09:56h in News by Marites (Tess) Sison WACC partner Espacio de Comunicacion Insular has urged governments of the Dominican Republic and Haiti to coordinate their responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, saying failure to do so would be catastrophic for both countries.   Concerns have been raised by international health agencies that continuing movements of Haitian migrants who are leaving the Dominican Republic and going… Read more »

03 Jun World Association for Christian Communication (North America) calls for an end to police attacks on journalists June 3, 2020  The North American chapter of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC-NA), along with The Associated Church Press and Religion Communicators Council, call upon American law enforcement to immediately cease their interference and abuse of journalists as they cover protests against police brutality and the extrajudicial killings of Black Americans. … Read more »

By Staff on May 26, 2020   International public service media from G-7 countries have reported “strong audience increases” since the Covid-19 pandemic, which they interpret as a show of confidence for the “reliable and independent information” they deliver on multiple communication platforms, in a variety of languages, on all continents.  The global health crisis has illustrated that public service media are “at the service of the general interest, democratic… Read more »

Indigenous peoples are “not mere victims of climate change,” asserts researcher and conservation biologist Gleb Raygorodetsky in Why traditional knowledge holds the key to climate change, one of the articles in the latest issue of Media Development, WACC Global’s international quarterly journal. The issue explores the theme, Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change: Bridging the Gap.   While Indigenous peoples comprise only 4% of the world’s population, (between 250 to 300 million people), “they utilize 22% of… Read more »

                      Photo: Johnson Wang/Unsplash    What does it mean to be human in the digital age? What do advances in communication technology mean for communication rights and other human rights? “Do we live in a ‘post‐truth’ era?”  These are some of the questions explored in the latest issue of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly journal of the… Read more »

  “Community Radio Tiichajil Tenam was set up “in order to deepen its engagement with local authorities and citizens, as well as to become a more meaningful space the promotion of Indigenous rights and culture at the local level.” Photo: Asociación de Grupo de Mujeres Tejedoras Ixiles Q’imb’al,   In 2016, the Asociación de Grupo de Mujeres Tejedoras Ixiles Q’imb’al, a women-led civil society organization from Guatemala’s Ixil region, listened to the desire of their… Read more »