Final Friday on the State Home in Nairobi, the president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, announced the addition of coding as a topic into its major and secondary colleges curricula. This new growth makes Kenya the primary nation in Africa to approve coding as a topic of examine within the 2 early colleges.
“I applaud the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Growth for main our nation to this landmark achievement, by implementing coding as a essential talent inside our new Competency Primarily based Curriculum,” President Kenyatta stated on the occasion.
The President additionally launched the Nationwide Cybersecurity Technique 2022 which supplies strategic interventions in addressing nationwide cybersecurity challenges in Kenya. The Kenya Nationwide Digital Grasp Plan which is able to run until 2032 was additionally inaugurated.
With all these digital roll-outs, the president, whose tenure involves an finish in a couple of weeks, is optimistic in regards to the affect the Nationwide Digital Grasp Plan would have on the nation. He believes the plan will set up the nation’s management in ICT by fostering the expansion of ICT-related companies and creating an enabling coverage, authorized and regulatory setting for the better adoption of e-governance.
“This, little question, will improve employment creation, allow and scale up ICT innovation and the event of a dynamic and strong ICT sector that may improve the expansion of all sectors of our economic system. The grasp plan additionally guides traders whereas planning their funding priorities,” President Kenyatta stated.
The digital grasp plan’s goal of building over 20,000 village digital hubs throughout the nation will allow the federal government to make use of an extra 40,000 youth on to run the facilities and prepare residents.
Kenya continues to take care of its place as one of many hotbeds for digital innovation on the continent. This new initiative displays an ambition to reimagine schooling and a stable dedication to constructing the long run. And because it appears each the non-public and public sectors are aligned with this imaginative and prescient. Simply this 12 months alone, Microsoft, Visa, and Google have opened their first growth facilities within the nation’s capital.