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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.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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It's Getting Hot in Here: Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement

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"It's Getting Hot in Here: Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement" (IGHIH) is an online weblog (blog) project supporting a global movement of youth researching and reporting on global warming and its affects in their countries, communities, and individual lives. Originally created by youth leaders specifically to allow youth to report from the International Climate Negotiations in Montreal (2005), "It's Getting Hot in Here" has since grown into a global online community, with over 200 writers from countries around the world.
Communication Strategies

"It's Getting Hot in Here" is a community media blog project supported by the work of a network of Contributing Editors that provide guidance, content, and critical support for an online community working to address and stop global warming. Contributing Editors work with a worldwide network of Contributors focused on various topic areas such as: climate justice; dirty energy; news and media politics; United Nations/international policy; and youth movement/campuses. After having submitted a number of posts that demonstrate a familiarity with the technical and contributor guidelines, Contributors may be promoted to be "Authors," able to publish posts independently. They may also pull in photos to their blog posts from a custom Flickr feed.


The blog can be read online or readers can subscribe to receive updates via email or a "Really Simple Syndication"/RSS feed. Topics covered include: clean energy; carbon emissions; "green" jobs; protecting biodiversity; environmental laws, bills, and policies; and political participation and local action, among others. IGHIH also syndicates to Google news, the New York Times' Blogrunner, Taking It Global's Climate Blog, youthclimate.org, and has a widget hosted on several dozen other sites.

Development Issues

Youth, Environment, and Climate Change.

Key Points

"It's Getting Hot in Here" has been recognised as a Best Green Blog, a Top 10 Climate Blog by Climate Progress, is listed as a “Suggested Source” by nytimes.com, and has been nominated for the COM+ Award for Outstanding Climate Change Communications. According to the blog itself, readers of "It's Getting Hot in Here" come from 160 countries around the world, and is (as of 2009) the third-ranked climate blog in the world, as well as one of the top 4,000 blogs globally.

Sources

It's Getting Hot in Here website; and dgCommunities: Water Resources Management posting from Anuradha Bhattacharjee "It's Getting Hot in Here," May 13 2007, and email from Richard Graves to The Communication Initiative on January 14 2009.

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