The regional African Leadershihp in ICT course launched this week in Kenya. Twenty-two senior officials from ministries and public sector institutions gathered at the Kenya Distance Learning Centre (KDLC) for a comprehensive orientation workshop delivered by GESCI. The pioneering African Union Commission course will be delivered across seventeen African countries in two years beginning with Kenya, Mauritius, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa. Participants responsible for strategic planning, policy making and training and skills development across key institutions and ministries in Kenya will engage with expert tutors on a bespoke veritual platform to develop their leadership capacities for the development of a knowledge society in Kenya. The course will take place over seven months culminating in the development of a Policy Coherence Roadmap which will be facilitated by Futures Thinking experts and GESCI.
During the course participants will explore new strategies for Science, Technology and Innovation, Leadership in the Knowledge Age, Learning in the Knowledge Age, Communications Infrastructures, and ICT Applications and Government among other topics.