About Us

GeSCI is an international not-for-profit organisation providing demand-driven assistance to developing countries seeking to harness the potential of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to improve their education systems.

GeSCI was founded by the UN ICT Task Force in 2003 arising from a global call to utilise ICT to address the issues of quality and access in developing country education systems. Five years on, GeSCI is a well known innovative agency replete with a team of international experts in education, technology and research. We work with Ministries of Education (MoEs) and leading international organisations to realise the shared vision of a Knowledge Society for All.

GeSCI’s work is guided by the principle of knowledge building and sharing – a principle that helps developing countries build their own knowledge and innovation institutions and structures. Therefore GeSCI does not:

Donate computers, other goods or money to the governmenton
Implement or manage any programmes on behalf of the government
Run workshops or training courses for schools or individual learners

A Knowledge Society

Knowledge societies are based on the understanding that knowledge forms a major component of any human development endeavour. A Knowledge society creates, shares and uses knowledge for the prosperity and well-being of its people. The link between knowledge and development is fundamental to the building of knowledge societies – knowledge being both a tool for the satisfaction of economic needs (see knowledge economy box) and a constitutive component of all human development. (UNESCO, Towards Knowledge Societies 2005).