The Drum Beat 415 - NEW CI WEBSITE!
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Welcome to The Communication Initiative Network's REDESIGNED WEBSITE!!
As you may know, The Communication Initiative (The CI) network is an online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organisations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social development and change. To foster this process, we have been working intensively of late to revamp our website - a platform shaped by your input!
THE WHAT AND THE WHY
The CI network process includes: The Communication Initiative: Global - in English, with a worldwide overview and focus; La Iniciativa de Comunicación: Latin America - in Spanish, with a worldwide overview and focus on the Latin American experience and context; and Soul Beat Africa - in English, with a focus on the African experience and context.
While remaining loyal to the philosophy that has shaped the process of our birth in 1998, The CI has been working to make some changes. In doing so, we have listened to you, such as by integrating the feedback of 2,300 network members who provided their assessment and advice on how we should move forward (click here [PDF]). These ideas were crucial in helping spark the genesis of a new platform of knowledge and interactivity to better support the work of communication for development practitioners around the globe.
This is just a beginning! This platform will grow and expand over the next weeks, months, and years. We count on continued feedback from you to guide the process. Please send us your comments anytime through our online form - click here.
REGISTRATION
Please join us in the newly Interactive Online Space by registering!
Go to "Register" in the top right of the site (or click here). It is free!
If you are new to The CI, you can subscribe to our e-magazines, including The Drum Beat, through this registration process. If you are already subscribed to The Drum Beat, please also register. (If you are already subscribed, but opt not to register, you will still receive our e-publications; however, in the coming weeks and months there will be features available only to people who are registered within our new platform).
FUNCTIONALITY: COMMENTS WELCOME!
Please let us know what you think of the website and how it is functioning within your context!
There were 4,218,284 pages viewed on The CI website between Sept 1 2006 and Aug 31 2007. With over 68,000 people in The CI network, more than 40,000 of those people receive this electronic publication (The Drum Beat) every week. Grateful for this diverse and broad group, we have tried to take into account the range of connectivity contexts within which you work.
Send us your comments through our online form.
FEATURES!
Some of the features on this NEW website include:
THEME WEBSITES - "windows" into The Communication Initiative:
These sites - accessible by clicking on the blue tab labelled “Theme Sites” - provide specific points of interaction for those people working on particular themes within the communication for development field. They often include additional information and interactive features (such as discussions and polls) that will not be found on The CI: Global website.
Here are some direct ways to access these Theme Sites:
- Avian Influenza
- Democracy and Governance
- Early Child Development
- HIV/AIDS
- ICT Policies and Studies
- ICT4Development
- Natural Resource Management
- Polio
NEW POLLS!
Each website has a theme-specific poll related to it. In most cases these are located in the Top Right corner of each website. Please express your opinion today!
Please navigate to your area of interest for a provocative poll question.
SUMMARY KNOWLEDGE!
We also still feature our main KNOWLEDGE SECTIONS full of summaries of key information for communication and media for development policymakers and practitioners:
Evaluation Methodologies and Data
Strategic Thinking [articles, reports, and documents]
Trends [articles, reports, and documents]
Awards [available from other organisations]
Funding Opportunities [such as fellowships, grants, scholarships, and internships]
and
CLASSIFIEDS SERVICES
TECHNICAL NOTE
There are a few glitches and some hidden content that we are working to address at the moment. Let us know if you see something, and please accept our apologies in advance for any inconvenience that our growing period may cause. We are grateful for your patience while we work to make this new website even better!
SEND US FEEDBACK!
Please visit our Comments form and let us know what YOU think.
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The Drum Beat is the email and web network of The Communication Initiative Partnership - ANDI, BBC World Service Trust, Bernard van Leer Foundation, Calandria, CFSC Consortium, CIDA, DFID, FAO, Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Ford Foundation, Healthlink Worldwide, Inter-American Development Bank, International Institute for Communication and Development, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs, MISA, PAHO, The Panos Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, SAfAIDS, Sesame Workshop, Soul City, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNICEF, USAID, WHO, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Chair of the Partners Group: Garth Japhet, Soul City [email protected]
Executive Director: Warren Feek [email protected]
The Drum Beat seeks to cover the full range of communication for development activities. Inclusion of an item does not imply endorsement or support by The Partners.
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