<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495210"></span>Listers,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209">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 <a class="edited-link-editor" href="http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495438">Jadili platform</a>, register and post.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209">So onto todays theme:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495212"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495213"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495214">How to Develop Skilled Human Capital </b></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495212"><span><b><br></b></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495215"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495216">*ICT integration in primary, secondary, tertiary levels,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495217"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495218">*Specialized Skills (Software /Engineering)</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495219"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495220">*Research & Development Capacity</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495221"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495222">*eLiteracy for citizens/public </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495223"><b><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495224"></span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495225"></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495226"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495227"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495687">The Background:</b></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495228"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495229">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.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495230"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495231"></span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495232"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495233"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495234">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.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495235"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495236"></span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495237"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495239">Send in your ideas, comments, strategies, etc. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495545">1Day as usual for the topic.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span>walu.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495059">
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