What have we done? What impact have we made? What have we learned? How will we use what we have learned to inform future interactions? These questions were posed by Patti Swarts, GESCI’s Director of Programmes during the Strengthening Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (SIPSE) national…

Four participants received certification in the African Leadership in ICT (ALICT) course. The graduation ceremony was organized jointly by the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GESCI) and the Embassy of Finland to Namibia representing Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA). The…

Rabat, Morocco - 20 April 2015. In recognition of the significant set of shared values, missions, goals and constituencies of their respective organizations, The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) and the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GESCI) today…

The last round of tracking the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (SIPSE) project is in progress. In line with this, a team of two officials from the ICT4E unit in Kenya’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) and GESCI staff visited secondary…

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…

GESCI’s Senior Education Specialist Mary Hooker attended the Mobile Learning Week 2015 (#MLW2015) hosted by UNESCO and UN Women in UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The theme of the conference was ‘leveraging technology to empower women and girls’. The focus of activities throughout the week was looking…

The Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GESCI), in partnership with the African Union Commission and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland, has been implementing an 8-month African Leadership in ICT and Knowledge Society (ALICT) course since 2012. There has been exceptionally strong…

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…

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…