<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:georgia,"itc century w01 light";font-size:17px">“While supply and installation in schools stands at approximately 95 percent nationally,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:georgia,"itc century w01 light";font-size:17px">implementation ails at 5% percent in terms of utilisation of the equipment,” the report</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:georgia,"itc century w01 light";font-size:17px">which was prepared by former acting Moi University Vice Chancellor Laban Ayiro reads."</span></div><div><br></div>This is interesting. Maybe not. I fail to differentiate between supply and installation in the above context.<div>Those two should not be distinct when it comes to a laptop/tablet. I also fail to differentiate between</div><div>implementation and utilization. Is this usually how complicated it is to understand technocrats?</div><div><br><div><br></div><div>Where does the buck stop now? With the Education Ministry or the ICT Ministry?</div><div><br></div><div>Are they going to take back the tablets/laptops that were already issued or what is the future of such?</div><div><br></div><div>And what exactly was/is the content in the laptops/tablets or the future labs?? Does anyone know?</div><div><br></div><div>Do we have KICD peeps in this list??<br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe the govt should just stop wasting taxpayers money, because even building the labs is not going to</div><div>change the scenario. To me, the real problem is NOT what is being blamed. It lies elsewhere. Planning.</div><div>What was actually planned was the "cut" to be earned from the supply. That was achieved. The rest is/was</div><div>not important. The second "cut" to be earned from the labs is now well planned. The end result though is</div><div>bound to be the same - whatever stagnated the utilization still exists.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 09:22, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>Listers<br><br>Just incase you missed reading this one. KICTANet discussed this eventuality a while back. Read on!<br><br><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Ministry of Education has now suspended issuance of tablets to Class One pupils under the digital literacy programme, opting instead to build computer laboratories.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></p><br><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang has said that each of the 25,000 public primary schools will get one computer laboratory.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></p><br><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">“There has been a policy change in programme from one child-one laptop to the construction of computer laboratories for ICT integration,” Dr Kipsang told National Assembly’s Education Committee while presenting budgetary proposals.</p><br><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></p><a href="https://www.nation.co.ke/news/education/Ministry-abandons-laptop-project/2643604-4997644-10p9jfgz/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.nation.co.ke/news/education/Ministry-abandons-laptop-project/2643604-4997644-10p9jfgz/index.html</a><br><br><br><br>Best regards<br><br><br>Githaiga, Grace<br><br><br><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--<br>Grace Githaiga<br>Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network</p><br></div>
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