Government, through TVETs, seeks to train over a million young people on accessing online employment and opportunities. That the future of work is online, and most likely on the mobile phone, is no longer deniable. This is a fact that the government has acknowledged and has stepped up efforts to create online jobs and opportunities.
Scrapping of visa curbs aids in economic transformation in areas like tourism, renewable energy, education, agriculture, security, sports and mining. Kenya has in the past months signed agreements with Eritrea and South Africa to abolish visa restrictions for their citizens to ease movement of goods and people.
Mr Eliud Owalo, the CS for Information, Communications and the Digital Economy, said the ambitious project is at the centre of the government’s digital agenda, which include provision of 25,000 free WiFi spots at public places, issuance of digital loans, and the establishment of 1,450 digital hubs in villages to boost youth employment.
Government moves to use credit scores in disbursing the loans. The scoring is arrived at by checking one’s transactions and saving history, which they must keep improving to get higher loan limits.
Kenya is warming up to electric vehicles f the latest developments in the industry are anything to go by. Several players from both the private and public sectors have come up with initiatives that point to the fact that it is just a matter of time before e-mobility takes off.
State tightens grip on data protection to lift digital economy.Safeguarding data collected both online and offline by the
many actors has become an urgency for the country, with the government incorporating it in its transformative agenda.
Afri-cities summit puts Kisumu on world map.
Kenya raises clean power output in climate change fight. About 87% of electricity generated now comes from geothermal, wind, water and solar sources, putting the country on a good path to achieve its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 32%.