I'm back from an invigorating three days at eLearning Africa in Dar es Salaam. The theme of this year's event was ICT for Development, Education and Training. My first reaction on learning of the location of the conference centre was less than positive, as I imagined hours spent in thick traffic…

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…

The 2010 edition of the IITU Measuring the Information Society Report shows a continued growth in ICT services despite the global economic downturn. This continued progress, according to ITU, is indicative of the transition to a global information society. The report credits some developing…

The AUC, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Finland and GeSCI have embarked on a three-year partnership to build the capacities of future and potential leaders in ICT in Africa. The ALICT Program is one of the concrete developments achieved under the 8th Partnership (Science, Information…

The objective of the workshop is to identify a broad range of stakeholder views and opinions that will inform the development of the African Leadership for ICT conceptual framework and strategy. As part of this identification process, participants have been discussing opportunities for development…

We’ve just published a situational analysis of Tanzania’s ICT in Education landscape for the purpose of problem identification. This analysis has helped us to understand the main education issues and to determine the country’s interest in using ICT for Education, as well as progress made in…

I’m in Delhi attending The Evaluation Conclave, funded in the main by IDRC CRDI, The Rockefeller Foundation and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. The conclave combines practical workshops on a variety of M&E methodologies in several development disciplines including education, health,…

On Friday, the 15th of October 2010 at the African Union Headquarters, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the implementation of the African Leadership in ICT (ALICT) program was signed by the African Union Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology, H.E. Jean-Pierre EZIN,…

We're not sure what the protocol is for writing a blog about a blog but that's the subject of this posting. Alex Twinomugisha and Esther Wachira from GeSCI wrote a blog for The Africa Report this week on the heated issue of African Teachers and remuneration. Of course the authors are too well versed…

GeSCI has been collaborating with the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources and task force members drawn from government agencies, NGOs and other private entities to develop a set of e-waste guidelines to be used as a reference for the responsible identification, collection, sorting,…