CS Eliud Owalo noted that the government has begun a significant digital transformation agenda and improving ICT infrastructure by laying 100,000km of fibre optic cables, creating 25,000 free public Wi-Fi hotspots, and establishing 1,450 digital laboratories for the purpose of providing digital skills.
“We are rolling out the digital infrastructure to digitalize all government services, we have already digitalised a total of 5,084 services, which are available on the e-citizen platform,” he said.
The CS observed that the Ministry is also digitising government records with an aim to run a paperless government.
He reiterated that the government has embarked on massive digital skilling among Kenyans to ensure there is commensurate level of digital skills that facilitate consumption of virtual government services and create digital jobs.
“we believe that we should be able to create about 1 million jobs in the digital space,” said CS Owalo.
The CS added that in the domain of digital entrepreneurship, the government has created the Konza Technopolis and the foundation in the hopes that private partners will join in and turn it into Africa’s Silicon Savannah.
