Govt has a robust Digital Transformation Agenda to promote digital skills

 

ICT and Digital Economy CS Eliud Owalo arrives at the Maseno school in Kisumu County during the opening of the Digital lab the Government has established to champion issues of digital skills across the country-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo

July 5, 2023

Govt has a robust Digital Transformation Agenda to promote digital skills

THE Kenya Kwanza Government has a very robust Digital Transformation Agenda, the Cabinet Secretary in charge of ICT and Digital Economy has said.

ICT and Digital Economy Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo says digital skilling is a very crucial component of the Digital Transformation Agenda under the Kenya Kwanza Government headed by President Dr William Ruto.

Addressing the press at Maseno University today after launching a digital lab at the University and the Maseno School, Owalo said the Government has embarked on establishing digital labs in Secondary schools, Tvets and public universities to equip the students with digital skills and literacy.

Owalo says the Government’s aim of giving digital skills to Kenyans is a way of ensuring that they will have digital jobs after acquiring digital skills.

The ICT Cabinet Secretary says under the Digital Transformation, the Government has embarked on putting free government wifi at the Market areas and bus termus so as be able to promote E-Commerce.

Owalo says the Government has also digitalized about 5,000 services it offers to its people, adding that the program was recently launched by President Dr William Ruto.

He says the frontier today is the digital jobs and that is why the Government has embarked on its digital transformation agenda.

“We want to empower our youth through the digital skills and tell them how to do digital jobs,” Owalo says.

He further says Government intends to reach out to Global Digital Companies where the youths can exploit their potential skills digitally.

Owalo adds that the Government plans to roll out its locally assembled smart phones at a unit cost of about 40 US Dollar, adding that these phones will greatly help members of the public access the virtual government services offered.

Owalo says the other roll out will be about digital identity where Kenyans will be identified virtually, adding that this is the surely way the Government will confirm the true identity of an individual.