Just Digital is a series of short lessons to help you navigate online wisely and advocate effectively. It is a collaboration between the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC Global), World Council of Churches (WCC), and Evangelische Mission Weltweit (EMW).
Just Digital is divided into two parts. The first part, Big Issues in Small Bytes (available now), gives you the knowledge and skills to understand the most important issues for navigating wisely online. The second part, Taking Control, Making a Difference (available May 2024), encourages you to take action wherever you are to make our online lives safe and fair for everyone.
The course is designed to be followed in order at your own pace. Each lesson contains insight from experts around the world, illuminating resources, and fun assignments that help you master important concepts. You can finish each session of three lessons in 30-45 minutes.
Already registered? See your course progress at the
bottom of this page and select your next lesson!
Why digital justice?
- Are you worried about fake news and social media causing real-world problems?
- Does online hate speech and trolling impact your life?
- Are you curious about how AI will change the way we connect and communicate?
- Do you want to use digital technologies to build community and work for social and ecological justice?
- Are you committed to ecological and social justice, but are not sure how this relates to anything digital?
If you said yes (or even maybe!) to any of these questions, then you are in the right place. Digital justice covers a lot of ground, including the challenges in the questions above – and so much more! In our digitalized world, digital technologies affect human rights, the environment, how we communicate, and more.
Feeling brave? Test your digital knowledge
with our short quiz here >>
Your digital justice mission (should you choose to accept it)
- Follow the 3 modules in Big Issues in Small Bytes to gain digital literacy skills.
- Follow the 6 modules in Taking Control, Making a Difference (available April 2024) to learn how to take action for digital justice.
- Learn from digital justice experts around the world.
- Make an impact in your community through creative digital justice missions.
- Collaborate with other participants to level-up your digital justice skills.
Overview
Big Issues in Small Bytes (Available now)
The first three modules are for anyone who wants to understand the key issues involved in our digital lives:
- Cookies are never free
- Don’t take me for a fool
- What can I say? My rights, your rights
You will learn about some of the big challenges created by digital technologies. You will also learn how these challenges relate to existing social and ecological problems, like sexism and climate change.
We will give you tools for action, leaving you a more savvy digital user and capable of becoming a champion for digital justice in your community. Each module is broken down into three lessons you can follow at your own pace.
Taking Control, Making a Difference (available May 2024)
The next six sessions are for those who know the basics and want to go further in understanding the pros and cons of our digital lives.
It will offer advocacy skills, access to digital justice expertise, and bring like-minded Digital Justice Champions together. It will strengthen your networks, help you build bridges between social, ecological, and digital justice.
Making our digital world socially and ecologically just, requires a transformative movement of people with different stories and talents coming together to advocate for public, democratic, accessible, and affordable digital spaces.
Bringing about a just digital transformation is a big challenge, but we believe it’s mission possible!
Ready to get started?
Click here to register for Just Digital >>
When you have registered, you can always come back to this page, see your course progress below and access the sessions you would like.
We hope you find our course fun, informative, and inspiring!
Here is a short video to show you how to follow the sessions and use the MemberPress platform.
If you are having problems, please write to wacc@waccglobal.org.
