“We are looking at working with public institutions that can create local assembly lines. In addition, we are pursuing tax incentives for those who will set up local device assembly in Kenya,” said Matiang’i.
TechMoran reported that the digital Literacy programme aim to develop skills for a knowledge-based economy, promote research and development, promote local assembly and manufacture of goods and services relating to this programme,and enhancing job creation.
Apart from giving incentives to local assembly lines, government also wants to to leverage partnerships with the private sector for education content development to help achieve its Digital Literacy Programme.
“We are excited about the commercial opportunity these partnerships have in digitizing and developing educational content for schools. We will hold a Digital Content Stakeholders conference in the coming weeks to create awareness about the opportunity and the process that will be followed to approve educational content. Our plan is to facilitate development of educational content that is in formats that are device independent. We expect to have content for Class One by October,” the CS added.
In preparation of the school laptop project, the ICT ministry has also released a list of 11,744 schools connected to power for the Pilot programme and is now working on a manual with model classroom and desk specifications for this schools. Branded as the DigiSchool, from digital and school, the Digital Literacy Programme is expected to be a universal brand for Kenyan education.
