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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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iheed develops animated films for the training of health workers in developing countries across the globe, using its online crowd-sourcing platform, iheedCrowd. This platform is established for the digital design community to address global health education and training challenges. Using a competition-based format with awards and prizes, iheedCrowd works on rapid mobilisation of the digital media community by providing a way for animation designers to both produce work and reach end-users.

Communication Strategies

iheedCrowd is set up to encourage  individuals to create animations and films for education and training through cellphones and internet-connected tablets to help solve healthcare issues. Their competitions begin with the creation of a story board by each entrant. The top entries are chosen and developed through interaction between the iheed advisory broad and the creator until a final package is finished. The top three products in each competition are then showcased online at the iheedCrowd website. The animations are designed to be transferred with ease between devices, easily translated, and efficiently distributed in order to address health education issues rapidly and in response to education and literacy challenges.

 

The animation library includes films on:

 

  • "Two Simple Ways to Treat Water - Filtration and Solar Disinfection";
  • "Breastfeeding - Technique and Benefits";
  • "Family Planning: Using Depo-Provera";
  • "The Dangers Of Smoking";
  • "Child Malnuitrition";
  • "The Coughing Child and Pneumonia";
  • "Breast Cancer";
  • "Depression - Understanding the Causes";
  • "Buzz & Bite Malaria Prevention Campaign";
  • "NO EXCUSES - Campaign to Prevent Domestic Violence and Abuse";
  • "HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme";
  • "The Story of Cholera"; and
  • "Shortage of Health Workers".
Development Issues

Health

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Sources

iheedCrowd website, April 22 2013.