[kictanet] The State Of Internet Access In Our Schools & Kenya’s Global Ranking In A Hyper-Connected World

[Barrack Otieno]

Hi Ali,

It is good you raise this issue, the same arose during our monthly
Internet Society Chapter meeting last weekend and the Chapter decided
to conduct a baseline survey whose findings we shall share with the
community in due course, you raise very salient issues that members
pointed out.

Best Regards

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
> Listers
>
> Last week I visited a school run by an NGO called New Dawn Kenya
> www.newdawnkenya.com. The school is in an informal settlement in the
> affluent Runda residential area. The appetite for education and knowledge
> among the students was a thing of beauty to see. These are extremely
> disadvantaged young people with an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
>
> What struck home for me was that the majority of them had never accessed
> information on the Internet. This issue is an emotional one for me. As a
> hyper-connected Kenyan I have always taken for granted access to the
> Internet for the last few years. Over the last few years Internet usage and
> penetration levels have increased phenomenally.
>
> Read on:
>
> http://alyhussein.com/2012/09/the-state-of-internet-access-in-our-schools-kenyas-global-ranking-in-a-hyper-connected-world/
>
>
> Ali Hussein
>
> +254 773/713 601113
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
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