Social Norms
Social norms action with informed and engaged societies
Social Norms
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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Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) - Africa

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Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) trains and equips libraries in Africa to archive material while saving indigenous languages and upgrading African librarians and media to be available online. It is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to promote the preservation of publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and to make these materials in microform available to researchers.
Communication Strategies
The microform collections of CAMP form a pool of historical, political, linguistic, economic and geographical data and primary source materials that are not available elsewhere. Member libraries rely on the vast microform collections of newspapers and journals and, thereby, avoid the high costs of acquiring, cataloguing, and storing these materials locally.

CAMP acquires microform sets and authorises filming of research materials in North America, Africa, and Europe. CAMP collects microform copies of the material as:
  • selected newspapers, including titles received on current subscriptions;
  • journals;
  • government publications;
  • personal and corporate archives;
  • personal papers of historians, journalists, anthropologists, geographers and government leaders;
  • writing in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, German and other European languages as well as works in Swahili, Xhosa, Zulu and other African languages.
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CAMP website on August 3 2004.