Global digitization is shaking up many nations in Africa, and for this reason Kenyan kids are on the brink of a technology major scoop. The country is seeking to live up to its status as the technology hub of East Africa by providing laptop computers to primary school pupils. This is actually one of what could turn out to be the legacy of the new administration.
The country is taking a big IT leap and all these are expected to pay off in the near future. Giving computers to Standard One pupils is expected to help nurture talents from an early stage. This East African country has been projected as the ICT hub in the region and now all seem set to digitize the whole nation. The laptop project for the primary school pupils is a multibillion shilling development. Several local and international businesses are already jostling for the tender to offer the laptops for the children. An estimated 800,000 children are expected to benefit from the mini computers.
The laptop for Standard One pupils is expected to help nurture talents from a very early age that would help the country drive forward the wheels of its economy. Already, the country is constructing a multibillion shilling ICT city in the peripheries of the capital Nairobi. This technology city is called Konza and is tipped as one of its kind in east and central Africa.
The new government promised in its manifesto to turn Kenya from an analogue system to a digital system. The promise included giving mini computers to pupils in all the public primary schools. The number of targeted beneficiaries is about 800,000.
This ambitious laptop project has attracted international and local ICT providers who are seeking for the tender to supply the devices. This is a multibillion shilling project that would be carried out each year as schools admit fresh Standard One pupils. The whole school ICT project is expected to create job opportunities for many unemployed people directly and indirectly.
It is important to note that the types of laptop computers to be supplied are solar powered. This deliberately so given that the country is still not wholly connected with electricity. Therefore, solar powered devices would be still usable in the rural villages where electricity is not available. As if to facilitate proper electricity connectivity, a project dubbed rural electrification is being rolled out in most of the rural set up that are yet to be connected to the national grid.
There is another downside to this laptop for primary schools project. Majority of tutors in public primary schools are hardly computer literate. This poses a challenge on how the project would meet its object with such an ill-equipped human resource, and besides an unreliable human resource, there is also the problem of teacher shortage.
In the same category of ICT illiteracy among Kenyan kids are pupils in the so-called informal schools which are found in informal settlements around the cities. Such schools are mostly community-run and are ill-equipped and ill-funded. Unfortunately, pupils in informal schools are not part of the targeted beneficiaries in the free laptop project.
The country is taking a big IT leap and all these are expected to pay off in the near future. Giving computers to Standard One pupils is expected to help nurture talents from an early stage. This East African country has been projected as the ICT hub in the region and now all seem set to digitize the whole nation. The laptop project for the primary school pupils is a multibillion shilling development. Several local and international businesses are already jostling for the tender to offer the laptops for the children. An estimated 800,000 children are expected to benefit from the mini computers.
The laptop for Standard One pupils is expected to help nurture talents from a very early age that would help the country drive forward the wheels of its economy. Already, the country is constructing a multibillion shilling ICT city in the peripheries of the capital Nairobi. This technology city is called Konza and is tipped as one of its kind in east and central Africa.
The new government promised in its manifesto to turn Kenya from an analogue system to a digital system. The promise included giving mini computers to pupils in all the public primary schools. The number of targeted beneficiaries is about 800,000.
This ambitious laptop project has attracted international and local ICT providers who are seeking for the tender to supply the devices. This is a multibillion shilling project that would be carried out each year as schools admit fresh Standard One pupils. The whole school ICT project is expected to create job opportunities for many unemployed people directly and indirectly.
It is important to note that the types of laptop computers to be supplied are solar powered. This deliberately so given that the country is still not wholly connected with electricity. Therefore, solar powered devices would be still usable in the rural villages where electricity is not available. As if to facilitate proper electricity connectivity, a project dubbed rural electrification is being rolled out in most of the rural set up that are yet to be connected to the national grid.
There is another downside to this laptop for primary schools project. Majority of tutors in public primary schools are hardly computer literate. This poses a challenge on how the project would meet its object with such an ill-equipped human resource, and besides an unreliable human resource, there is also the problem of teacher shortage.
In the same category of ICT illiteracy among Kenyan kids are pupils in the so-called informal schools which are found in informal settlements around the cities. Such schools are mostly community-run and are ill-equipped and ill-funded. Unfortunately, pupils in informal schools are not part of the targeted beneficiaries in the free laptop project.
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