ALICT Call for participants from Mozambique, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, Ethiopia closes 10 Aug

The African Leadership in ICT project is a three-year flagship project launched under the 1st Action Plan of the 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership supported by the AUC and funded by Finland. GESCI, an international organisation based in Nairobi has spent most of 2011 putting the project together, developing content and curricula as a professional, blended learning course which started off in 5 countries building leadership capacity for knowledge society development in Eastern and Southern African countries. The second objective of the project is to pilot a blended learning building model that can be used in the future for other eLearning Programmes. The third objective is to create an alumni of future leaders for the knowledge society, bringing together a cross-section on the profile of people who are completed the programme to share experiences, to discuss and to be active in a community of practice, focused on the real exploitation of technology for the knowledge society, for planning, implementing and strategising.

It is a seven-month programme focused on informed leadership, using modern tools of leadership, assisted and augmented by looking at new strategies for science, technology and innovation. Modules include Communications and Infrastructure (telecommunications, media and distribution etc), applications that government can engage for e-government, e-learning, e-health but also corporate governance, internet governance, all the different issues that come into play on which you must have operational strategies to guide and manage these activities subsequently, Learning and Education, and Contextualisation of the Knowledge Society and Development in the African Context.

The first phase of the project had 110 participants from 5 countries, representing a cross-section of Ministries and relevant state organisations, middle management to upper management, Heads of Units and Departments, Assistant Secretaries of departments, and some Permanent Secretaries.

ALICT has launched the second phase of the project, inviting participants from Mozambique, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia and Ethiopia. Some basic eligibility criteria include that the applicants must have at least a Bachelors Honours Degree, work for a Ministry, a public sector organisation or public research institution or university, have a middle or senior management position and have permission from their supervisor to participate.

The seven-month course is a mix of online, offline and applied learning. Click here to download the module description.

All participants who successfully complete the course will be awarded a Professional Certificate issued jointly by GESCI and the African Union Commission (AUC). Successful participants also have the option to obtain a Graduate Diploma in Leadership in ICT and the Knowledge Society from the Dublin City University in Ireland upon payment of a fee of 300 euro. This can then facilitate leading towards a Masters Degree.

To apply before 10 August, please click here