Our vision is a world in which the people living in poverty successfully control the communication processes essential for reducing poverty. Our purpose is to change thinking, practice and the study of communication so that people living in poverty can manage the social change they need to improve their lives. We’ve formed the Consortium so that individuals, institutions, academics and donors can, together, forge strategies that give greater power to those first-voices. United in the belief that communication processes – not just technology or scientific advances – are essential to development of traditionally marginalized communities, the Consortium advocates for community-based problem solving sparked by public and private dialogue that leads to collective action. This is followed by strategy design, implementation, community monitoring and assessment based on collective input from the affected people.