The Kenyan government is closing in on the 4,000 mark in terms of the digitization of government records and the digitization of services.
Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo has stated that the goal is to digitize up to 80 per cent of the records by the end of June this year and to digitalize an initial 5,000 services in the same period.
Speaking Monday during the 12th Edition of the Connected Summit 2023 held in Diani, the coastal part of the country, the CS noted that the full acquisition of the e-citizen platform has been the foremost catalyst in the digital transformation, adding that the government is supporting the all-important creative economy and digital entrepreneurship.
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“We also want to facilitate reduction of the cost of calls and data, to facilitate more use of digital platforms, especially by our youth and those at the bottom of the social and economic pyramids,” CS Owalo said.
The CS stated that the government is also providing training to the public workforce for effective service delivery, which entails the concurrent running of several digital skills capacity-building programmes, such as the Jitume Kazi Programme.
“This Programme, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, was designed to equip Technical and Vocational Education and Training Institutions (TVETs) countrywide with 23,000 virtual desktops.
The ultimate goal is to equip one million learners with market-ready business and ICT-related courses, for free. This should then have a roll-on effect to more populations,” stated the CS.
He further noted by the end of February this year, seventeen (17) Jitume Kazi labs had already been set up and connected with the trainees reportedly earning from the digital jobs while still in training.
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