From Tuesday 07/04/2016, Jubilee gov started the pilot program to equip 150 schools with a new learning tool-Laptops before they roll out to the rest of the country.
At least four out of 150 schools will by close of the week receive free laptops under the Digital Literacy Programme in a pilot process that kicked off Tuesday. Class One pupils at Ilbissil Boarding Primary School, Kajiado were the first to receive the laptops. Katheka AIC in Machakos, Sharki Primary in Mombasa and Hill Primary in Eldoret are set to receive the devices Thursday and Friday. ICT secretary Joe Mucheru said that 10,000 devices had been released for the pilot expected to run until end of next month.
“Our transition rate has been very slow because pupils opt for academies with ICT infrastructure. With the digital literacy programme, this will now be a thing of the past,” Ilbissil head-teacher Nicholas Muriu said in a statement. It is a Sh17 billion project.
Yes, that’s true but 5 university led consortium’s were late in importing and assembling the laptops. Its catch up time, the national rollout will be more challenging as its supposed to be done in full this year.
I have a Kindle and that gadget is awesome. Tailor made for reading, long lasting battery, zero maintenance and very simple to use. Kindle should have been the way to go, not laptops
some people will always find a problem with the sauce…it is either too salty, spicy, cold, hot, too late, served in plastic instead of metal plates…
Slowly but surely, the promises Jubilee made are being fulfilled. Those that say that it is late do not realize that the power supply was priority number one. Good job!
Its funny this things come just as we are about to go vote. Promise the people something then give it to them jus shortly before you go to the polls. Clearly Kamwana is reading Frank Underwood’s script
to quote you, “some people will always find a problem with the sauce…it is either too salty, spicy, cold, hot, too late, served in plastic instead of metal plates…”
In the end its good we are discussing Jubilee manifesto and what has and hasn’t been done - a first in Kenya. In my opinion the court may have delayed this pledge by 3 years but they saved us all from a questionable bid.