GESCI is in Banjul this week to participate in the Banjul + 10 event organized by the AUC to celebrate 10 years implementation of the African Youth Charter. The team, headed by Jerome Morrissey, GESCI’s CEO, Duncan Onyango, creative media entrepreneur and former AKE tutor, and Alex Kirui, former…

GESCI’s African Knowledge Exchange (AKE) - Creative Media Venture is currently running its 3rd edition in Kenya. The10 month program offered to artists in the Digital Media Industry has attracted this year 20 participants in the inter-related areas of Animation, Mobile Games and Apps and Music…

We are inviting talented young people to apply for a limited number of places on our creative digital media venture which includes Mobile games and Apps development, Sound and Music creation, Animation, cultural exploration and storytelling.

At least 40 participants comprising of professionals from the digital creative media industry, NGOs, and representatives from Kenya’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology attended a policy forum organized by GESCI’s African Knowledge Exchange (AKE) programme. The forum dubbed Linking New…

The Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (SIPSE) activities in 2015 kicked off with a meeting of master trainers on 24 January. This was an opportunity for learning exchange and consensus building regarding the progress of project-based learning currently ongoing…

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…

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…

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…

On Tuesday and Wednesday at Nairobi’s Kenya Institute of Education (KIE), policy makers and researchers will meet some of the great talent driving Africa’s creative digital media industry to discuss how policy can be better developed and implemented to nurture innovation, entrepreneurship and…