An important part of CRIC's overall strategy will be to develop policies to disseminate its work to a widespread user community and to interact with that community in whatever way supports the development of the research programme through dialogue and collaboration. Because of the diversity of potential users of CRIC research there is no single route to effective dissemination and dialogue. We will follow a number of routes to achieve effective engagement with different communities of users. On the one hand we will develop broad communication strategies which do not seek to target any particular audience, while on the other hand more focused strategies will be developed to have maximal impact on specific audiences. In some cases the latter will involve interaction with an audience over an extended time period.
There are four major audiences with whom CRIC needs to interact: