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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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Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative - Global

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and six of the world's largest publishers of medical journals launched a project to enable medical experts in developing countries to gain access, via the Internet, to medical literature that they could previously obtain only by paying high subscription fees.
Communication Strategies
This initiative allows doctors, researchers, health policymakers and others to have access for free or at significantly reduced charges to a collection of biomedical literature. Information was made available from journals published by Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science, Springer Verlag, and John Wiley.

During the project's first stage, more than 1,000 journals were made available to people in 70 countries. The project's second stage targets other developing countries.
Development Issues
Health, Technology.
Key Points
The online project, which was expected to run for an initial three-year period, is part of a larger initiative, the Health InterNetwork project, which aims to strengthen public health services by giving specialists access to relevant and reliable medical information.
Partners

Blackwell; Elsevier Science; the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group; Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science; Springer Verlag; John Wiley; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; International Telecommunications Union; Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation Network; Satellife; United Nations Development Program; United Nations Fund for International Partnerships; United Nations Population Fund; Unicef; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; United Nations Volunteers; The World Bank Group; and World Health Organization.

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Letter sent from George Lessard to Frederick Noronha on February 4, 2002 bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com

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