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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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Big Data, Big Ideas for Media (June 7 2013)

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Millbank Tower, London, United Kingdom

 

"Data stockpiles are growing exponentially....consumer profiles, media content usage patterns, Twitter and Facebook posts, online purchases, public records, real-time media user behaviour and much more."

 

Hosted by Open Society Foundations and organised by the World Newsmedia Network and the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, this event intends to inspire tactics and strategies to harness "big data", which is a term used in information technology to describe "a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications." (Wikipedia).

 

Representatives from the media industry, journalism, and business disciplines will detail their own case studies, outlining their challenges and successes using tools to understand complex data sets in the media they have produced.

 

Click here for more information about the conference.

 

Registration information:
Click here to register for the conference. The early bird price is £250 until March 27 2013, and £300 thereafter.