World Association for Christian Communication

08.09.2004 Providing open and free access to content on Internet can empower millions
without the need for paying the hefty price for information produced by
multinational companies. Lobbying for open content will pave the way for
bridging the digital divide.

07.05.2004 Campaigners, academics, lawyers, communicators and students gather at a workshop on intellectual property rights and find that even the Indian film industry poaches on traditional music.

08.03.2004 South Korea is the most wired country in the world, with broadband connections in nearly 83 percent of households. The emergence of the Internet provides people with a real opportunity to produce and deliver news at a reduced and affordable cost. For this reason, media power, which had been monopolised by capital and authority, is changing. The Internet newspaper is a fine example of how the Internet is changing the concept of media ownership.

02.03.2004 The World Summit on the Information Society was the first global multilateral forum dedicated to discussing governance issues and policies in relation to communication, since the so-called digital revolution took centre stage. Yet the Summit came and went almost unnoticed by the public, and much less as something of concern to them.

28.10.2003 The issues of affordable access to the Internet, telephony and other telecom services is greatly exercising the minds of many at the World Summit on the Information Society and other arenas. There are many genuine efforts afoot to deploy ICTs more effectively for development, calling for us all to ‘think outside the box’. Finding the right solution(s) to move forward, however, is not easy and demands the concentrated effort, especially, of civil society.