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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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Computers for Schools

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The Computers for Schools project is a Kenyan computer aid programme that aims to bridge the digital divide by providing refurbished computers to schools. The project facilitates the productive and sustainable use of computers in education on a national level in secondary schools.
Communication Strategies
The project supplies computers to schools across the country including schools in the most rural areas where students have never seen or touched a computer before. The project organiser, Computer Aid International shipped over 35000 to education institutions and about 15000 to community organisations working in fields as diverse as HIV/AIDS, environment, human rights, and primary healthcare.
Development Issues
Technology, Youth, Education.
Key Points
The programme hopes to help young Kenyans to acquire skills needed for the future and to ensure an equitable balance of distribution between rural and urban schools, girls and boys institutions and to ensure the inclusion of marginalised sectors and schools for children with disabilities. The project aims to:
  • increase the number of refurbished computers being re-used overseas
  • increase the number of UK organisations donating their used IT equipment for re-use overseas
  • identify and work with those organisations in recipient countries able to derive maximum value from refurbished computers
  • provide training and work experience in computer repair to people from socially excluded communities in our workshops in the UK
Since August 2002 the project installed over 1000 fully refurbished PCs into 54 Kenyan state secondary schools.
Partners

Computer Aid International.

Sources

Computer Aid website on Febrary 14 2006.