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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 lainiciativadecomunicacion.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Verboice

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Verboice is a free and open-source tool for creating and running projects that interact via voice, allowing users to listen and record messages in their own language and dialect or answer questions with a phone keypad. For reaching out to communities at their level of literacy or technological sophistication, there are ways that Verboice is designed for tyhe purposes of informing and educating audiences with access to basic phone services, for example: coordinating first responders - "Using Verboice, first responders get a firsthand look at the conditions in even widely separated communities, without having to spend time travelling from place to place. Triage efforts are based on voice reports gathered directly from victims, helping disaster response teams to better deal with rapidly changing circumstances and deliver care."

Features include:

  • Basic Web interface for creating interactive voice response systems
  • Integrates with existing projects using industry standards
  • Works with almost any VoIP line or can be installed on a local server with a dedicated phone line
  • Places calls according to your timeline with Verboice scheduler 
  • Captures key details of every call in automatic logs 
  • Integrates with open-source messaging/PBX solutions, such as Asterisk and Freeswitch
  • Extensible to support high-scale VoIP and custom switches

Source

ICTworks by Inveneo enewsletter of February 16 2015.