Ruto plans to install internet in all schools in partnership with Google
Ruto plans to install internet in all schools in partnership with Google to align Kenyans with the shifting job market.
To catch up with the evolving employment market and technological innovation, President William Ruto all schools in the nation to have internet access.
Speaking during a meeting with Google on Thursday, October 28, Ruto disclosed that the collaboration with the global technology giant will help educate schoolchildren about cutting-edge trends in their respective fields of study.
In the meeting, Ruto was accompanied by ICT Cabinet Secretary, Eliud Owalo, and US ambassador Meg Whitman.
“To empower young Kenyans with competitive skills at the earliest possibility, there is a real opportunity for partnership in implementing Google’s Computer Science Unplugged curriculum to prepare the next generation of the globally relevant digital workforce.
“We have our eyes firmly fixed on winning and maintaining global leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
“It is our plan to ensure that Kenya can plug into and service international supply chains from a strong competitive position,” Ruto stated.
He added that leveraging technology would also help create job opportunities for Kenyans in the future.
“Business process outsourcing offers real opportunities for our young, highly educated, motivated, and productive people.
“Kenya must raise its competitiveness and claim its share of this job creator and income generator in order to raise the contribution of the digital workforce to the economy,” Ruto stated.
On the other hand, he pledged to build Kenya’s first open university in order to provide online education to Kenyans at a reasonable cost.
In addition, he urged Google to collaborate with local enterprises, particularly those in the Juakali sector, to combine technology and their expertise.
According to him, this will make it possible for many Kenyans to sell their goods on a global scale.
“Our enormous informal sector, whose MSMEs employ 85% of non-farm labor, as well as our agriculture sector, which contributes 50% of our GDP and provides income for 2/3 of Kenyan households, can become a force to be reckoned with if it organizes itself in the digital economy,” Ruto said.
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