[kictanet] Day 2(a) of 3: 2016 ICT Year in
Review Feedback - Human Capital Feedback
To
CC
29 Nov at
12:48 PM
Thanx Barrack,
Looks like Day1 had little
reaction/comments. Feel free to belatedly post on Policy, Legal/ Regulatory matters
but just keep the correct subject line.
Today we to move to Day2a (Human
Capital feedback) and Day 2b (Infrastructure feedback to be sent in next email)
Summary feedback on Human Capital was
as follows with detailed document attached.
a)
41% of the respondents felt that the government had
provided sufficient ICT opportunities for the youth to a moderate extent. 30%
however felt youth opportunities had not been effectively provided, while 27%
felt it had been done to a large extent.
How far is this the mandate of the Government?
- ICT Labour force projections; then building capacity backwards
Some areas that may be
tapped into;
- Private sector in capacity building of their staff
- Personal initiatives to advance in ICT skills
- Community resource centres
b) 58% of the
respondents felt that the DLP (Laptop Project) will have a positive impact to a
very large extent. 30% felt it would be a moderate impact while 12% think it
will have little or no impact.
There is a lot of positiveness
- Keeping in mind that the laptop is not the education and that learners
have different abilities
c) 40% of the
respondents felt that tertiary institutions were, to a moderate extent
providing the requisite skill set for the ICT industry. 34% felt they were to a
large extent providing these skills while 24% felt they were not.
ICT skills to many is still at the word, excel tutorials – so as to hand
in typed out assignments
- The tertiary institutions should be able to lift the level of learning
for all learners beyond this
d) 40% of the
respondents felt that Konza City will have a positive impact to a very large
extent. 21% felt it will be a moderate impact while 25% think it will have no
impact.
- Replication
across the country
- Lift one to the
remote areas of Kenya; open up
- County
Government can take on such as their own long term initiative; investor
opportunities, local jobs
e) Provide
general ICT literacy programmes to the public, Coding as a skill to all
students – irrespective of discipline, Continuity in government offices (rather
than sabotage of previous holder initiatives), Improve Academia-
Government-Industry linkages, Cryptography training, Identify and support
Technology Universities, Promote Incubation Center, Have mechanisms to weed out
ICT quacks, Provide ICT scholarships, Standardize ICT Trainings, Digitization
of key services - police occurrence books, land registries should be availed to
the youth.
Toa maoni (let hear your reactions)
walu.