This year’s CDAC Network Public Forum will be held in partnership with the German Forum on Media Development (FOME) – hosted by DW Akademie and Fondation Hirondelle on 10 December 2025. 

This has been a year of extraordinary turbulence for people in crisis: geopolitical rules have been rewritten, funding has been dramatically cut, whilst organisations aiming to support communities have come under increasing attack from hate speech and misinformation. The Public Forum will convene a collaborative discussion on what a future-focused, tech-enabled and community-centred approach to supporting people in crisis should look like in 2026 and beyond.

We will be asking questions, such as: how is the integrity of information in crisis contexts changing? How is this impacting communities and humanitarians? How can media and humanitarian actors work together to ensure the right information is reaching the right people and trust is maintained? Read the Framing Paper to understand the current state of information and why it is at a crisis point, and the bold Call to Action on what we can do about it.

This full-day event will provide an exciting and valuable collaboration that will bring humanitarian, media development and journalist actors together to discuss the critical issue of ‘Information in Crisis’.