Dennis Smith

President of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)

RCCongress 2010 Plenary Speaker:

Tao Meets Tech: Emerging Global Trends in Religious Communication

Dennis Smith is the president of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC). He has lived and worked in Guatemala since 1977.

He coordinates the Publications and Communications Training Program for the Central American Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies (Cedepca), an ecumenical training center for women and men doing pastoral work in Central America.

Tao Meets Tech: Emerging Global Trends in Religious Communication

WACC President Dennis Smith and General Secretary Randy Naylor will explore the global impact of communication technologies on religious communication. Together with several of the Global Partners present at RCCongress 2010, they will examine four areas:

• How new religious movements are using communication technologies to impact politics and culture
• Gender and the news media
• Current religious approaches to radio and television
• Religious institutions, new media and social networking

This multi-disciplinary panel will illustrate the increasingly nuanced conversation between personal faith, religion communicators, technology and the social sciences.

Human rights are not just a matter of civil and political rights.

They include those rights that empower individuals and communities to express their needs, to make their voices heard, and to participate fully in their own development.

~ Randy Naylor,
WACC Human Rights Day 2007 statement