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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. 

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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Evaluación Proyecto IDEAS

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El proyecto IDEAS para el Nuevo Milenio, financiado por el Instituto Nacional de Investigación sobre Discapacidad y Rehabilitación de Estados Unidos consta de tres elementos principales: el sitio web Disability World (Mundo de Discapacidad), una base de datos internacional sobre resúmenes literarios, y un simposio anual.

Esta iniciativa se lleva a cabo mediante la colaboración de cuatro organizaciones localizadas en Estados Unidos, cuyo alcance es internacional: El Instituto Mundial de Discapacidad, Rehabilitación Internacional, Utilización de Investigaciones para la Vida Independiente y el Instituto Interamericano de Discapacidad (IID).

Methodologies
En su quinto año, el proyecto IDEAS decidió efectuar una evaluación sumaria de sus procesos, que estuvo a cargo de The Galvin Group. El estudio se basó en encuestas electrónicas, entrevistas personales y sondeos de opinión a los lectores, a fin de conocer puntos como el alcance global e impacto del proyecto en 95 países, cobertura, alcance de sus objetivos: empleo, vida independiente/derechos de discapacitados, accesibilidad, trato de los medios y gobernabilidad.
Source
Tomado de revista electrónica Disability World, Volumen No. 23 Abril-Mayo 2004.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 08/10/2006 - 08:25 Permalink

Soy periodista colombiana, me interesan mucho los temas relacionados con la Discapacidad. Les agradezco si me envian todo tipo de información relacionada con personas con discapacidad, en español.
Saludo Cordial
Viviana Esguerra
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