When I wrote this letter, exactly 100 days have passed since I took office. In my first letter to members, I thanked everyone for entrusting this huge responsibility to me – to further develop WAPOR after its first 75 years. I vowed to do my best, and would use my first 100 days in office to consult and consolidate. Human knowledge progresses exponentially, I hope what we have achieved over the past 75 years can be doubled in the next 7.5 years!

I won’t repeat the importance of our three core values, namely, Liberty, Quality and Humanity. I start with our need to break boundaries – geographical, ethnical, cultural, epistemological and organizational. One small step towards this direction is to promote multilingualism in our community. On March 1, with the support of our Council colleagues, and after assessing the cost and benefit, our WAPOR website began our multilingual journey by installing an auto-translation plug-in, all messages there can now be read in 133 world languages by a simple click. Please try it out!

We now take our Step 2 [...]

Following the theme of our last conference, “Speaking Truth to Power”, we have gathered the most recent polls conducted in Ukraine and Russia concerning the current conflict. You will find here the web page with all the polls. We have also added the frequencies of the last wave of the World Values Survey conducted in Ukraine (2020) and Russia (2018).

In conformity with WAPOR’s principles, we will post only polls that respect the WAPOR professional standards and are completely transparent about their methods.

The revised WAPOR Code of Professional Ethics and Practices is now available. There is a version in English which you can download. We have also prepared translations into Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Russian, and Spanish which can also be downloaded. Simply click on the language you require, and you’ll see a link to download the appropriate version.

If you think translations into other languages would benefit our members and the communities with which they interact (journalists, academics, government officials), we welcome your recommendation. Please feel free to contact us at waporoffice@gmail.com.