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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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Mandate the Future is a youth internet forum on global issues.
Communication Strategies

The network consists of three websites and the NGO partners of the Worldview International Foundation.

1. www.mandatethefuture.org is the nodal site of the network. This site contains information regarding the project, its aims and its various components.
2. www.ctrlaltesc.org is the interactive site where short articles are posted. Also known as the ‘community area' this is where the discussions take place. Every week MtF highlights a new issue. The content team of MtF posts small articles that stimulate discussions and debates. Topics previously covered on this site include global warming, violence against women, genetically modified food, single parents, capital punishment, child soldiers and ICT for development to name a few.
3. The Zine or www.mandatemagazine.org is the component of MtFNet dedicated to development organizations. In magazine format, it hosts advocacy campaigns, e-newsletters, ideas and viewpoints of our Affiliate Members.
4. WIF NGO Network: Are the organisations working with the WIF on the Participatory Communication for Democracy and Sustainable Development (PCDSD) project and other projects at the grassroots level.
Development Issues
Gender, Poverty, Health, Environment, Peace, Youth and IT for Development.
Key Points
Mandate is linked to WIF's NGO network operating at the grassroots level through more than 800 Community Based Organisations (CBOs). These institutions have organised youth from the local community to form ‘youth circles'. Three thousand ICT disadvantaged youth in each country, about 25,000 youth in all, participate on MtF through the 50 Community Communication Centres established by WIF. The output of youth discussions at community level is the content-input for www.ctrlaltesc.org.
Mandate plans to carry the opinions and solutions by young people to the agenda setters and decision makers.
In the future, Worldview and MtF envision thecreation of the ‘Global MtF community' based on the merger of the grassroots and web based communities. Facilitated by multi-national and multi-lingual entities this shall be a nexus and a conduit of cross-cultural youth opinion.
Partners



This project collaborates with several partners. Worldview International Foundation enjoys special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) and with the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

Sources

Letter and summary from Arusha from Mandate the Future to The Communication Initiative, November 11, 2001.