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

[Inge Vervloesem]

Hi Barrack,
a useful source of information for your baseline is the e-readiness
survey done by the ministry of education and NI3C.

Baraka nyingi,
Inge

On 18 September 2012 09:21, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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