16 practitioners from the music, animation and games design development sectors in Kenya have successfully graduated from GESCI’s 2014/2015 Creative Media Skills Course. The course had three areas of exploration – animation, mobile games/apps and music production/sound design. For three months, the…

Information Communication Technology & Innovation and particularly capacity building in these areas is relatively new area in development programmes globally and by Finland. African Leadership in ICT (ALICT) is building capacity of policy makers and experts in ICT, Education and Science, Technology…

Ricaud Auckbur spoke to us recently about the launch of the Mauritius Tablet PC Project. Mr. Auckbur, along with three other ALICT alumni - Mrs Kavita Purmessur, Mr Rajnish Hawabhay and Mr Kishun Baguant - were part of the Mauritius Tablet PC Project team. The nation-wide Tablet PC Project for…

Last week, between the 7th and the 9th of January, at Kenya's School of Government, teachers from Machakos and Naivasha secondary schools gathered together for the first time with a group of Master Trainers where they were introduced to a new mobile platform for Science, Technology, Mathematics and…

Ever since I enrolled for ALICT course in October 2012, my life has not been the same again. ALICT course opened my eyes to see a new world and approach things differently. 1- Knowledge and approach Within my organization (Uganda National Council for Higher Education, NCHE), I have been able…

When I started the course I was not sure whether I would make it because – - I am not from an ICT background; - although I am knowledgeable in my own field I did not know how to upload assignments and share documents with group members; - also the fact that connectivity is a major problem in…

My wife came home one day with an advert in the local newspapers for a course I had never heard about. I was attracted to it because of my interest in ICT leadership. I was further motivated to apply because it had an African development approach giving us a pioneering opportunity as the first…

On Friday, 5th July, in one of the largest African Union Commission (AUC) initiatives in professional development, 213 mid-to-senior level Government and public sector officials from eight African countries graduated from a bespoke leadership course implemented by GESCI (Founded by the UN ICT Task…

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…

Bridging the gap between innovation, and education and skills development : Policy makers, entrepreneurs, researchers and Kenya’s digital creatives have their say Part 1 GESCI recently held an innovation forum in Nairobi which engaged a wide variety of innovation stakeholders in a debate on the…