Mastercard Foundation commissioned the Education Development Trust (EDT) to carry out a Mid Term Review for three projects they support across Africa. One of the Projects is GESCI's African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI) Programme which is under implementation in 140 secondary schools in Kenya,…

On 30th Aug, 2017, GESCI in partnership with the African Union Commission and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland held the African Leadership for Knowledge Society Forum. The event, which also marked the closure of the  GESCI ALICT/LATIC programme, took place in Nairobi Kenya. In…

An Evaluation of the African Leadership in ICT Programme from a Quality Assurance Perspective

One of the highlights of GESCI's policy forum on innovation and skills development (held end of January in Nairobi, Kenya), was the presentation of research on the use of technology, skills development, learning models for innovation and employment in the knowledge society. Mary Hooker of GESCI…

Let’s move from schooling to learning. That’s one of the key messages I took away from this excellent report from the Center for Global Development, which presents empirical evidence to support a suspicion that many of us working in education already harbour – that the gap between schooling and…

The recently published Financing Education in sub-Saharan Africa report by UNESCO reveals, among other things, a stark bias in many SSA governments’s education funding. This bias favors tertiary level students over primary and secondary, in some cases to the tune of 50:1. Public spending on…

When there is a diffusion of ICT enabled services in the community such as government services, there is a knock on effect in the formal education system where greater demand is created for ICT. This acts as a catalyst for the creation of knowledge societies as it empowers the community at all…

The Indian government’s recent announcement of its plan to produce a $35 tablet next year garnered global media coverage. What was more stupendous than the magnitude of the task (taking simple economics into account), was the media’s almost wholesale acceptance of this latest tech-pledge at…

The report from Sida, published in June, describes trends and challenges as well as opportunities for scaling up mobile applications. The report focuses on East Africa and evidence is drawn from statistics and secondary data from 2008 and 2009. The report identifies and describes a range of mobile…

The 5th eLearning Africa Conference in Lusaka, Zambia, saw ministers, diplomats and government officials from Angola, Finland, Kenya, Liberia, the Netherlands, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, gather for a Ministerial Round Table to discuss and explore key issues…