Estonian president has launched a partnership for transforming education digitally in Kenya.
Integration of technology in learning enhances student’s interest in learning, collaboration among teachers and students, and prepares learners for the digital future.
In appreciation of the increased uptake of e-learning and the need for digital learning materials, Kenya Literature Bureau (KLB), StarCloud LLC Estonia, Risk Africa Innovatis, UNICEF, and Liquid Intelligent Technologies (www.Liquid.Tech) partnered to digitize books and make them available to learners in school.
UNICEF and Liquid Intelligent Technologies are working to map and connect high-speed internet to schools to enhance the reach of digital technology in Kenya.
Speaking at the event, the President of Estonia affirmed her commitment to supporting ICT in education in Kenya to enable access to Learning and Teaching Materials (LTMs) for all learners.
“Crucial to achieving this objective is a high literacy rate, so we have built a highly-skilled national teaching workforce and created a learning environment that supports achieving quality learning outcomes for all children. With the launch of the Opic platform, a technology developed by an Estonian ICT start-up – Star Cloud, Kenya is now working towards digitizing the school curriculum. This will allow both teachers and students access to online education, providing the opportunity to create an egalitarian school system,” President Kersti Kaljulaid said.
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According to Ben Roberts, the Group Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies.
“The success in achieving digital education will definitely be about such partnerships. At Liquid Intelligent Technologies, we have previously partnered with UNICEF to connect schools to high-speed internet to primary schools across the country, and with KENIC to provide domains and websites for all the connected schools. This has enabled learners and teachers to access approved KLB content on the Opiq platform, as well as to deliver the necessary training for teachers remotely.”
In keeping with the worldwide initiative of Project Giga (https://bit.ly/3C5hQZ3), Liquid has successfully connected 4000 schools to the internet across Africa.
‘The company aspires to continue empowering schools with digital technology and has further mapped 150,000 schools through the continent.
The aim is to connect more schools to explore diverse technologies, business models, and regulatory arrangements, and also to provide broadband connectivity and unlimited internet to schools and communities.
Further, through innovative testing of newer technologies and prototyping of business models, the mutual goal is to provide broadband connectivity with a minimum of 20 Mbps to the hardest-to-reach schools, thus refining and redistributing digital infrastructure to communities nationwide.
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