JKUAT, Moi win Jubilee Laptop tender
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| A pupil uses laptop./Allafrica.com |
By MUSYOKA NGUI
The Jubilee
Standard One pet project has gotten a breather after local universities won the
coveted tender to supply laptops to school children.
The Sh.17 billon
project will usher in job opportunities for the comrades and professors who
will be involved in assembling computer parts and consulting for the
information technology learning popularly called Digischool.
It is only 18
months to 2017 general elections and Jubilee pledge has been largely delayed by
court cases and debates on whether kids really need laptops or tablets and/or computer labs will just serve them fine.
The laptop project
is behind schedule by two year given the first batch of beneficiaries was to
enjoy the digital learning by January 2014.
Dr. Fred Matiang’i who
initiated the project as the ICT CS has since been moved to the education
docket and is expected to oversee the roll out of the grand plan. Of late, he
has embarked on impromptu visits in schools to assess their capacities as
learning centers occasionally catching school heads flat footed.
Jubilee duo UhuRuto
ran on digital wave to clinch presidency in 2013. It is not lost on observers
that the laptop tendering has been mired in corruption allegations of which Jubilee
rebel MP Alfred Keter(Nandi Hills) has milked considerable political capital.
In Kitui County,
three schools will benefit from the pilot project for digischool. They are
Kitui Central Primary, Kalumu Primary and Muthue Primary. They represent urban,
peri urban and rural locations respectively. The full list of all selected
schools for the pilot program is available at http://digischool.icta.go.ke/pilot/
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