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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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Cool Planet

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Cool Planet is Oxfam’s website for teachers. It is designed to support educators in England, Scotland, and Wales, along with their students. Using the concept of "global citizenship", it aims to assist teachers in bringing the global dimension into their classrooms. The resources are designed to inform and empower young people to work for a more just, secure and sustainable world.

The website includes a calendar of key dates for teachers, and hundreds of teaching materials on issues such as health, trade, climate change, food, and water.

Many of the resources are organised by theme:
  • Climate Chaos is a collection of lesson plans on the causes and effects of climate change. Included here are ideas for ways that students can reduce their own carbon emissions and communicate to others about the importance of reducing theirs.
  • Mapping our World is Oxfam’s free interactive whiteboard resource for teaching about maps, perspectives, and geography.
  • Milking It is an interactive resource about small farmers and international trade designed to facilitate teaching 13- to 16-year-olds about fair trade.
Please note: Cool Planet will be relaunched as Oxfam Education in Autumn 2007. Organisers state that one goal of the new web resource will be to make it as simple as possible for teachers to bring the global dimension into their classrooms.

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Email announcement from Oxfam, February 14 2005; and email from Jo Tomkinson to The Communication Initiative on July 13 2007.