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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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Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (Dec 2-6 2013)

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Abuja, Nigeria

Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) are hosting the Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7). The Forum will address "Open Learning for Development: Towards Empowerment and Transformation" through five themes: girls' and women's education, skills development, promoting open educational resources (OER), innovation and technology, and institutional development.

Each of the themes will explore in depth a number of past and contemporary issues and challenges and how the potential of open and distance learning (ODL) and appropriate technology can be harnessed or are being used to address them. In addition there will be under each theme analytical discussions of case studies, models, tools, and approaches on the use of ODL to promote learning for development. They will include: plenary and parallel sessions, panel discussions, training workshops, open networking streams, social networking and online media, roundtables, marketplace, "show and tell", etc. Click here for more information about the forum.
 

Registration information:
Full registration fees are US$500 before September 13, and US$ 650.00 after September 13. The full conference rate includes: registration, evening welcome reception on Monday, lunch (Tuesday to Friday), tea/coffee, gala dinner, access to conference cultural evenings, conference kit, book of abstracts, and conference materials.
Click here for delegate registration.