The hybrid opening ceremony brought together participants from The UNESCO Regional Office in Nairobi, Kenya and Rwanda who joined in from the Kenya Institute of Special Education and University of Rwanda respectively,The Rwanda Basic Education Board, The Ministry of Education Kenya,UNICEF,The…

Nairobi, August 2021: The Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GESCI) as the Lead Organization, Makerere University’s College of Education and External Studies (CEES) and The University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) are set to implement the Ada…

Under the framework of the Accessible Digital Textbooks (ADT) project, focusing on promoting inclusive education through accessible digital textbooks, the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa is supporting the improvement of equitable and inclusive education through holistic ICT integration. T…

GESCI is delighted to note that schools implementing the African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI) Programme since 2016 were among the top 200 schools nationally.

All the schools worked on a whole-school ICT integration aspect using the GESCI ICT Integration Roadmap and Guidelines. Going through a phased approached from e-Initial, to e-Enabled, to e-Confident and finally e-Mature where schools have ICT integration policies, teachers and students using ICTs in…

In 2016, GESCI through its African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI) Programme started off on a journey to transform 80 secondary schools in Kenya into Digital Schools of Distinction through integration of ICTs in teaching and learning. Over the past 4 years, teachers have gone through three cycles…

GESCI in partnership with The Ministry of Education Science and Technology in Tanzania and President's Office - Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG ) kicked off implementation of the African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI) Programme in 2017 reaching out to 40 secondary schools in…

Since its inception in 2018, the Innovating Education in Africa Expo has continued to gather momentum and established itself as the leading Pan-African event promoting the adoption of Education Innovations in Africa. The African Union Commission (AUC) and Partners across Africa will hold the…

GESCI facilitated training of school principals and school Board of Management chairpersons from 20 secondary schools implementing the ADSI programme in Morogoro Region Tanzania. The 20 schools were also awarded for successfully completing the e-confident phase in the GESCI DSD Development…

It is now time to rethink secondary education systems to ensure Africa’s young people have the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in the workforce.