Promoting Global Dialogue on ICT4E
GeSCI promotes and facilitates global dialogue on ICT in Education as a way of contributing to the general understanding and development of a knowledge society. We organise and attend high profile meetings together with global partners that bring together key decision makers in education in developing countries.
GeSCI is leading the UN GAID discussions on ICT4E, leading up to and now in the aftermath of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN - GAID) annual meeting in Monterey Mexico. The theme of this year's meeting was ICT and Innovation for Education. A series of rich discussions at the meeting has given rise to the development of a joint global framework for ICT in Education for the developing world.
GeSCI participated at the WSIS Forum 2009 in Geneva where GeSCI's Asia Regional Coordinator, Ms Ashish Garg, shared GeSCI's perspective on how ICTs are facilitating the achievement of the Education MDGs in the Indian context.
GeSCI's CEO Jyrki Pulkkinen raised the question ‘should we critically advocate m-learning?' during his presentation at the mobile-learning meeting which highlighted the challenges and opportunities afforded to education by portable devices.