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line-height:19px; margin:0 0 4px 0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;word-break:break-word;">Technology will be major driver for Big Four plan, President Kenyatta says ...</h2> <div class="card-description" style="font-size:11px;line-height:15px;color:#999;word-break:break-word;"></div> </td> <td style="text-align:right;padding:16px 12px 16px 0;"> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111830"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111830"><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Karla; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111869">"......“To this end, the Ministry of ICT will set up a taskforce on Blockchain and Internet of Things Technology – because, as a country, we cannot let these opportunities pass us by,” said President Kenyatta. The President said the potential for digital dividends is enormous if its transformational potential is harnessed by creating the right policy framework. “As a matter of fact, the internet and associated digital trade of goods and services have led up to 10 percent rise in employment in Africa,” said the President.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Karla; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111872">President Kenyatta made the comments when he delivered a speech Africa’s Digital Syposium at the Strathmore College in Nairobi whose theme was “Digital Drivers, Enabling the Growth of the Digital Economy in Africa”....."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Karla; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111872" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: garamond, "new york", times, serif; font-size: x-large;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_112067"><font color="#9d1811">Big acknowledgement for newer tech from the top.</font></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Karla; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111872" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, "new york", times, serif; font-size: x-large;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Karla; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111873">The Head of State said new innovations from Kenya have trended in the world, showing that the country Kenya has the potential to continue leading in the digital revolution.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Karla; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111874">“MPESA, M-Kopa, GroIntelligence, Andela and others, show that we can lead the world with innovations that drive financial inclusion, access to energy, better data to drive our agriculture, and the essential skills required to support the young innovators of the future,” said the President.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_112187" color="#9d1811">I am perturbed when technologies that Kenyans are good consumers of become the benchmark on how innovative the Kenyans in the Silicon Savana are. My prayer is that Kenyan tech entrepreneurs and innovators are equally groundbreaking and celebrated elsewhere...qualifying for State mentions for being part of the economic solution and employment creation .</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><font size="5" color="#9d1811"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><font size="5" color="#9d1811" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_112959">The big 4 continues to be opportunity ground for innovators and matching investors.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Karla; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_112713">"The Big Four include the expansion of manufacturing, affordable housing, food security, and universal health care..."</span><font size="5" color="#9d1811"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_112044">Be blessed.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><font size="5">Regards/Wangari</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111234" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div></div><div> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111359">---<br><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);">Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - </span><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);">"Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; 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font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111548">Technology will be major driver for Big Four plan, President Kenyatta says</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111549">NAIROBI, <span tabindex="0" data-term="goog_1077232823" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111550">27 February 2018</span> (PSCU) —President Uhuru Kenyatta today said technology will be a major driver for delivering his Big Four plan for growing the country’s economy.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111551">Speaking when he delivered a speech at a symposium on digital technology at the Strathmore College, Nairobi, President Kenyatta said he was confident that the digital revolution will help Kenya achieve the Big Four plan and ensure that growth transforms the lives of the people.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111552">The Big Four include the expansion of manufacturing, affordable housing, food security, and universal health care.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111553">President Kenyatta said technology will support affordable healthcare by driving access to information, better financing, stronger training for health workers, and, ultimately, broader access to services.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111554">He said digital technology will also support efforts to increase food security by playing a key role in agricultural value chains through better access to inputs, more reliable weather and crop information, tracking of counterfeit inputs, more transparent access to markets and fair pricing.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111555">“Digital technology also underpins a range of agro-financing services that are essential for equipping smallholder farmers across the country,” said the President.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111556">The President said Kenya was also positioning itself to reap the most out of the global digital revolution.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111557">He said the government will set up a committee on Blockchain and Internet of Things technologies that will study the benefits and challenges associated with the latest digital innovation trends.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111558">Blockchain is the technology used by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and refers to a continuously growing list of records that are linked and secured using cryptography. A blockchain, by design, is resistant to alteration or modification and some countries have already started applying the technology for official business.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111559">“We need to better understand the opportunities for Blockchain Technology, the risks of cybersecurity and the essential education and skills that our young people will need to make new technology work for them,” said the President.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111560">He said the country has been a leader in digital innovation and would not be left behind in the latest trends.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111561">“To this end, the Ministry of ICT will set up a taskforce on Blockchain and Internet of Things Technology – because, as a country, we cannot let these opportunities pass us by,” said President Kenyatta.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111562">The President said the potential for digital dividends is enormous if its transformational potential is harnessed by creating the right policy framework.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111563">“As a matter of fact, the internet and associated digital trade of goods and services have led up to 10 percent rise in employment in Africa,” said the President.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111564">President Kenyatta made the comments when he delivered a speech Africa’s Digital Syposium at the Strathmore College in Nairobi whose theme was “Digital Drivers, Enabling the Growth of the Digital Economy in Africa”.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111565">The Head of State said new innovations from Kenya have trended in the world, showing that the country Kenya has the potential to continue leading in the digital revolution.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111566">“MPESA, M-Kopa, GroIntelligence, Andela and others, show that we can lead the world with innovations that drive financial inclusion, access to energy, better data to drive our agriculture, and the essential skills required to support the young innovators of the future,” said the President.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111567">The symposium was also addressed by the Cabinet Secretary for ICT, Mr Joe Mucheru and the CEO of General Electric Africa, Mr Jay Ireland.</div><div style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111568">Mr Ireland, who also represented the US Chamber of Commerce, said American companies see the potential for investment that Kenya provides and are ready to play their part to enable Kenya achieve sustainable growth.</div></div><br style="clear: both;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111569"><br style="clear: both;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519659603399_111570"><div style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; 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