There is a spirited quest for ICT for Kenyan kids. To achieve this, the government is soon rolling out an ambitious project that would see all pupils joining standard one receive laptops. Computer for school-children is one of the digitization plans by the government which include a shift from terrestrial television broadcast transmission to digital broadcast.
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 devices for school-children will be solar powered because quite a sizeable area of the country is not yet covered by electricity. However, there also spirited efforts by the government to connect the whole country to the national electricity grid. In the same breath, the national electricity distributor is also changing to prepaid consumption while dropping the more traditional post-paid system for electricity consumption.
Creating a techno-savvy generation looks like a daunting task but the benefits are incredible and this is the source of motivation to the new government that is pushing for the project. Providing laptop computers to school-children was one of the prominent promises made by the new administration. There has always been a desire to create a digital general and this is best captured by government policies and slogans hinged on the same.
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.
The most prominent shortcoming of this project is that it excludes pupils from informal schools which are mostly community-run and situated in slums around the cities. Most, if not all of the pupils learning in the so-called informal schools come from very poor societies in which neither parents nor schools can afford to make available laptops of computers for their study. Equal ICT development cannot therefore be attained in the country if the children learning in informal schools are left out.
Primary school laptop project is likely to be a short in the arm for the electronic repair industry that is already booming in the country. This boom was started by the entry of cell phones and has since grown to meet the demand of breakdown in computers and laptops being used by university students and teachers. Therefore, with near a million laptops being issued to public primary pupils, the repair business looks promising.
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 devices for school-children will be solar powered because quite a sizeable area of the country is not yet covered by electricity. However, there also spirited efforts by the government to connect the whole country to the national electricity grid. In the same breath, the national electricity distributor is also changing to prepaid consumption while dropping the more traditional post-paid system for electricity consumption.
Creating a techno-savvy generation looks like a daunting task but the benefits are incredible and this is the source of motivation to the new government that is pushing for the project. Providing laptop computers to school-children was one of the prominent promises made by the new administration. There has always been a desire to create a digital general and this is best captured by government policies and slogans hinged on the same.
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.
The most prominent shortcoming of this project is that it excludes pupils from informal schools which are mostly community-run and situated in slums around the cities. Most, if not all of the pupils learning in the so-called informal schools come from very poor societies in which neither parents nor schools can afford to make available laptops of computers for their study. Equal ICT development cannot therefore be attained in the country if the children learning in informal schools are left out.
Primary school laptop project is likely to be a short in the arm for the electronic repair industry that is already booming in the country. This boom was started by the entry of cell phones and has since grown to meet the demand of breakdown in computers and laptops being used by university students and teachers. Therefore, with near a million laptops being issued to public primary pupils, the repair business looks promising.
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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