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The knowledge society - GeSCI

11.11.2011

Founded in 2003, GeSCI is an organization initiated by UN ICT taskforce to provide strategic advice to assist countries to better integrate the use of ICT in their education system. The ultimate goal of the organization is to ensure ICT tools are properly used in improving the overall quality of education and development objectives.

GeSCI collaborates with Ministries of Education (MoE) and all the other relevant government agencies to understand the potentials and limitations of ICTs. With a comprehensive understanding and research on the issue, GeSCI gives strategic suggestions to governments on ICT infrastructure financing and resource deployment. In practice, GeSCI provides specialists to work with MoEs’ officials on a day-to-day basis, providing advice, information exchange and research analysis.  The continuous information exchange is seen to be the foundation for the basis of building strategic capacities.

In addition to the collaboration with governmental agencies, GeSCI also undertakes research and analysis in the area of ICT. This work is often emphasized in comparing what developed and developing countries have done in similar situations, gathering experiences from the field, documenting good cases and developing useful tools to assist countries to improve their overall capacities in the area of ICT. One good example of the case is the development of TCO toolkit. This toolkit aims to help government to have a good measurement of the budgeting for ICTs in education. The content evaluation toolkit aids governments to supervise schools to select appropriate content for ICT-related classes. In all, the research and analytical work is crucial to GeSCI 's operations and is the foundation for GeSCI's strategic advice to countries.

On a global level, GeSCI is actively involved in advocacy and partnership building. GeSCI encourages and facilitates a global information platform on ICT in education as a way to contribute to the general understanding and development of a knowledge society. The complexity and rapidly changing nature of the ICT in Education landscape also requires us to seek a multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological research lens for understanding the impact of the phenomenon of ICT in education systems. This understanding empowers our partners at the global, regional and local levels, to make informed decisions about ICT in Education.

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