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Development action with informed and engaged societies
The Communication Initiative
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 lainiciativadecomunicacion.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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DevContacts

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Developed by DevDAS, an aid and development consultancy firm based in Sydney, Australia, DevContacts is a free iPhone app to address aid and poverty. (As described by Wikipedia, "app" is short for application software, also known as an application, which is computer software designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks) DevContacts is designed to put a human face to worldwide aid and poverty statistics and to demonstrate progress towards meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

DevContacts:

  • Assigns each person in iPhone address book to one of 130+ countries;
  • Re-imagines their life as if they had been born and raised there;
  • Brings to life data (11 data indicators) from the the World Bank's Data Catalog;
  • Lists UN data for each country's progress against the MDGs; and
  • Allows users to see their contacts' phone numbers and call them from within the app.
The iPhone app was designed specifically as an entry for the World Bank 'Apps for Development' contest.

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Email from Tamara Haig to The Communication Initiative on January 9 2011; and DevDAS website, January 3 2012.