[kictanet] Day 3 of 10: How to Develop Skilled Human Capital

Fri Jun 24 16:33:19 EAT 2016

@Ali,
This model (Indian Institute of Tech) might solve our challenge of establishing regional 'ICT centers of Excellence', a statement that was captured in our 2006 Policy but never saw the light of day...
It also feeds into the broader concept of a national innovation system as envisioned in the Sci, Tech & Innov Act 2013.
walu.

      From: Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
 To: Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
 Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 8:43 AM
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Walu
Human Resource Development and Training. The policy document mentions the Establishment of ICT Centers of Excellence. I propose the government goes one step further and Establish The Kenya Institutes of Technology (KITs) fashioned around the Indian Institutes of Technology.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are autonomous public institutes of higher education, located in India. They are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as institutions of national importance and lays down their powers, duties, and framework for governance etc. Each IIT is an autonomous institution, linked to the others through a common IIT Council, which oversees their administration. The Union HRD Minister is the ex-officio Chairperson of IIT Council.
The IITs have a common admission process for undergraduate admissions, called IIT-JEE, which was replaced by Joint Entrance Examination Advanced in 2013. The post-graduate level program that awards M-Tech, MS degrees in engineering is administered by the older IITs (Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Dhanbad, Roorkee, Varanasi, Guwahati). M.Tech and MS admissions are done on the basis of Graduate Aptitude Test In Engineering GATE). In addition to B.Tech, M.Tech and MS programs, IITs also award other graduate degrees such as M.Sc in Maths, Physics and Chemistry, MBA, PhD etc. Admission to these programs of IITs is done through Common Admission Tests (CAT), Joint Admission Tests for Masters (JAM) and Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED). IIT Guwahati and IIT Bombay offer undergraduate design programmes as well. Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2015 (JoSAA 2015) conducted the joint admission process for a total of 18 IITs, ISM Dhanbad.
Source: Wikipedia.
My gut feeling tells me that this particular singular focus on technology and engineering training is the reason why today Indians are by far the most dominant force in ICT across the world. Walk across Silicon Valley tech companies and see how dominant they are. 
There is no shame in replicating and tweaking for our own selfish ends what has worked in other parts of the world.
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On 24 Jun 2016, at 8:18 AM, Walubengo J via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Listers,
Plse feel free to contribute on previous threads as long as you pick the corresponding title.  Also remember, for those wishing to directly edit the Draft ICT policy, visit Jadili platform, register and post.
So onto todays theme:How to Develop Skilled Human Capital 
*ICT integration in primary, secondary, tertiary levels,*Specialized Skills (Software /Engineering)*Research & Development Capacity*eLiteracy for citizens/public 
The Background:The Digital Literacy Program aka the Laptop project is ongoing and we probably have  to wait another 18-20yrs years to  see its impact (when today’s std 1s hit the market).  But meanwhile, we need skilled human capital to help move us from a net consumer of electronic goods and services into a net producer of the same.
Our R&D output in general is quite low (Global Innovation Index 2015) despite the fact that we are leader at a regional level.  What should the Policy capture  to ensure Kenya churns out a constant supply of  highly skilled manpower necessary to drive the digital society.
Send in your ideas, comments, strategies, etc. 
1Day as usual for the topic.
walu. 

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