This is a guest post by Kennedy Mugera.
After a long wait for a learning resource the Jubilee Coalition promised to deliver during the campaign period of the 2013 elections, school kids are set to begin receiving laptops this year.
The project, which is set to encourage more kids to forge career paths in technological fields, is slated to start with 150 schools by July this year after the evaluation and announcement of successful bidders from a list of eight suppliers who managed to submit their tender applications in January.
The tender, which is expected to cover the supply, installation and commissioning of the Digital Learning Solution across 22,000 public primary school countrywide, has seen the partnering of several suppliers with Kenyatta University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in fulfillment of the framework of the tender, which asked interested public institutions with the capacity to create local assembly lines to apply for participation into the project.
The government plans to supply 294,981 laptops and 23,951 digital teacher devices along with capacity building and training of the teaching workforce in the use Information Communication Technology as a learning aid.