Development action with informed and engaged societies

After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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The revolutionary impacts of information and communication technologies (ICTs) affects the way people live, learn and work. A solid framework of IT-related policies can change the way in which we interact, while promoting social and economic opportunities worldwide. ICT can contribute to children’s process of learning, how it can be integrated into a play-based curriculum and how it relates to key areas of learning such as collaboration, communication, exploration and socio-dramatic play. The investigation concerns the issue of measuring governance at local government level especially in context of information age. It explains evolution of governance systems during agro-industrial age and the possible emergence of multi-dimensional governance in the information era. Information and communication technology (ICT) has become a major factor in shaping the new global economy and thereby producing the rapid process of changes in society. Teacher education institutions may either assume a leadership role in the transformation of education or be left behind in the rapid developments of technological changes. There is the radical implications of ICT for conventional teaching-learning processes. It discusses the challenges for ICT in the role of teacher’s education and guidelines to new generation of teachers and how to be well-prepared to use innovative tools and see dictionary pedagogies for learning.

This volume ... analyses the trends and challenges of the information age. Its main objective is to develop in students an understanding off strategy and competitiveness in the context of new economy, an ability to think strategically and make business judgements.

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