Presiding over the launch of GESCI as an international organisation at the UN Nairobi on September 29th were those who have been with GESCI since its inception and others such as the Finnish Ambassador to Kenya Sofie Emmesberger, and the Kenyan Permanent Secretary Ministry of Information and…

GESCI will be launched as an international non-governmental organisation on September 29th at 12.30pm at the Internet Governance Forum in Nairobi. Please send us a congratulatory message through our home page www.gesci.org! The journey from Ireland to Kenya, where international GESCI will be based,…

GESCI participated in two important sessions at ELA the day before the full conference opened. The first was the Ministerial Round Table – Education Access, Quality and Equity for African Youth. The Roundtable was supported by GESCI, IICD, UNECA and AADLC under the patronage of The United Republic…

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…

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…

Righteous pictures, a film production company that produces social change documentaries, is in the process of producing a film about universal connectivity which will treat such heavy-weight themes as the internet’s potential for fostering universal goodness or unleashing global catastrophe. …

The report, entitled Public policies for the information society: a shared vision? by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) does not so much concern itself with whether or not LAC country ICT polices share a vision, as much as it is concerned with describing why…

A panel of four authorities on the subject of ICTs in Education took a position on this question at e-Learning Africa's highly anticipated closing debate on May 28th in Lusaka, Zambia. Unfortunately the motion statement in which this core question was embedded was long, containing a number of…

Two days to go to ELA 2010. The Mulungushi International Conference Centre is bustling with activity as ELA’s organisers ICWE (based in Germany) manage a small army of personnel. Troops of people receive regular group briefings on a litany of tasks that must be executed to organise the largest ICT…

The recently published infoDev survey on ICTs in Education for India and South Asia hopes to serve as a framework of reference for policy makers. The survey which focuses on ICT use at the primary and secondary levels of education reveals several key insights, including: 1. Successful ICT4E…