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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ICT in Education Toolkit Version 2

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This second version of the ICT-in-Education Toolkit is intended to provide decision makers, planners and practitioners with interactive instruments and reference materials to formulate, plan, and evaluate education development programmes enhanced by information and communication technologies (ICTs). It is a multi-volume resource from infoDev, in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), containing six toolboxes - a total of 19 tools - that provide interactive instruments and step-by-step guidelines which assist users to work in teams for the purposes of:
  • collecting and analysing data;
  • diagnosing situations and issues;
  • formulating scenarios for appropriate ICT interventions;
  • generating implementation plans;
  • evaluating implementability and effectiveness of ICT interventions; and
  • making necessary post-evaluation decisions.
It is designed for: countries and educational institutions as they struggle with the challenge of introducing and integrating ICTs into education; UNESCO, infoDev, and others, in their advisory services; and officers and specialists of development agencies as they identify, prepare and appraise ICT-in-education projects or ICT components of education projects.

The Toolkit also contains a Reference Handbook that summarises worldwide knowledge, research, and experience on the effective use of ICTs for education.

Users are asked to apply for free registration before accessing the toolkit. Registration provides the organisers with data about who will be using the toolkit and how they will be using it.
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Update from Information and Communication
Technologies for Development
of the Development Gateway to

The Communication Initiative on April 12 2007.