Communication Initiative

Site URL: 

http://www.comminit.com

The Communication Initiative (CI) has been working in the field of Communication For Development for the last decade. In 2006, we embarked on a redesign with the following imperatives:

• Maintain our list of 35,000 documents; regional e-magasines; 100,000 pieces of supporting information (author information; bibliographic sources; etc.)
• Organizing data by taxonomy to allow elaborate relationships between data and categorization
• Multiple content-types to accommodate different formats of online documents
• Granular control of user permissions
• Custom caching techniques to allow a lot of data to be presented while keeping server load and page load within acceptable boundaries
• An innately multi-lingual site

The site features:

• Support for 73,000 registered users.
• 1.8 million user sessions per year.
• Theming based on Taxonomy
• Top lists driven by taxonomy
• User registration enhanced with CiviCRM
• Integration with Daylife news service.
• Integration with the phpBB forum application.
• An import of our pre-existing legacy data.