Marcus Duveskog

I am a Swede who see myself as a world citizen. My childhood was spent between Sweden and Kenya. My early years in Kenya gave me a love for the African continent and I nowadays reside in South Africa which is also the place where I found my beautiful wife Heidi. I see South Africa as my base and Southern Africa as my main working field.

I am an educational technologist with a special interest in ICT for Development. Through my research and work for University of Eastern Finland I have gained extensive experience on participatory design with youth in several African countries and contexts (Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Eritrea, South Africa and Zambia).

In January 2015 I completed my PhD studies, the title of my dissertation was ‘Digital storytelling for HIV and AIDS education in Africa’. In 2016 I founded the company ‘Contextualize’ together with my wife Heidi. Most recent activity keeping me busy is that we teamed up with Code School Finland in an initiative to bring coding, robotics, artificial intelligence and 21st century skills development to South African Schools. As a part of that effort I started a non-profit company in 2022 under the name of Contextualized Learning Solutions focusing on EdTech solutions for Southern African learning contexts.