
Several initiatives to computerise public schools by government and the private sector are paving the way to electronic learning in Kenya which may not only change how students access learning materials but also boost the quality of education especially in remote areas where there are no libraries. Current statistics from the Ministry of Education indicates that less than 2 per cent of public primary schools have access to basic computer studies and only 800 out of the 4,000 public secondary schools have computers. However, through the Public Private Partnership programs the Ministry of Education expects to boost this number over the next three years. Some of these initiatives includes the digitisation of school syllabus by the Kenya Institute of Education; computer donations and networking by telecommunication regulator , Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), and a partnership programme by the Clinton Global Initiative, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft and USAid aimed at improving education in Kenya. http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/-/539546/841456/-/item/1/-/k19y1qz/-/inde... -- "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford