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

[Barrack Otieno]

Thanks Inge, its amazing how much resource is out here.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Inge Vervloesem <ivervloesem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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