The Communication Initiative
Development action with informed and engaged societies
The Communication Initiative
As of March 15 2025, The Communication Initiative (The CI) platform is operating at a reduced level, with no new content being posted to the global website and registration/login functions disabled. (La Iniciativa de Comunicación, or CILA, will keep running.) While many interactive functions are no longer available, The CI platform remains open for public use, with all content accessible and searchable until the end of 2025. 

Please note that some links within our knowledge summaries may be broken due to changes in external websites. The denial of access to the USAID website has, for instance, left many links broken. We can only hope that these valuable resources will be made available again soon. In the meantime, our summaries may help you by gleaning key insights from those resources. 

A heartfelt thank you to our network for your support and the invaluable work you do.
Time to read
less than
1 minute
Print
a- a+
Published 7 years ago
Last updated 7 months ago
Read so far

The Journal of Development Communication

0 comments

The main objective of The Journal of Development Communication, or JDC, is to examine the role of communication in promoting national and regional development in developing countries worldwide. Launched in 1989, the peer-reviewed journal is published bi-annually in June and December. The JDC is published by the Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom), an independent regional, non-profit media organisation accredited to the United Nations. It is based at the University of Selangor (UNISEL) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The JDC is aimed especially towards policymakers, project leaders, government officials, development people in national and international organisations, and project planners and practitioners in health, agriculture, lifelong education, governance, and entrepreneurship. The journal aims to provide people concerned with communication for development issues with a forum for the publication of their studies, findings, ideas, and research. Contributed by scholars, practitioners, and researchers of development communication and journalism, articles in the JDC deal with an array of development-related topics. Book reviews, case studies, and viewpoints on any current issue directly or indirectly related to development communication, education, journalism, and social sciences are published in the JDC.

The journal's open source publishing system and open access policy are based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge

Publishers

Source

Emails from Dr. Royal D. Colle to The Communication Initiative on January 15 2018 and January 17 2018; and JDC website and Aidcom blogspot, both accessed on January 16 2018. Image credit: JDC