Tag: Joe Mucheru
ICT Ministry Unveils Coding Syllabus for Kenyan Schools
Coding is the new big thing in schools now. It is taught at lower levels in other parts of the world, and it appears...
ICT CS Mucheru Reveals Plan To Jumpstart Innovation With Start-ups Advisory Board
The Kenya government via the ICT Ministry is reportedly exploring options to set up a Start-ups Advisory Board to support the development of science...
Netflix MoU, A First In Africa, Sees It Invest Millions For Kenya Creatives
The Kenyan Ministry of ICT, Innovation & Youth Affairs, and video on demand firm Netflix have signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to...
Digital Literacy Programme Distributes Over 1.1 Million Learners’ Devices Since Launch
The Kenya National Digital Master Plan for the next decade (2022 to 2032) has since been released for national consumption. It is an extensive...
Inside Kenya Government’s Plan For Digital Infrastructure Growth In The Next Decade
Introduction
ICTs have quickly developed. Therefore, new knowledge and modernization have been designed to lead to the constant growth in the economic system and community,...
ICT CS Mucheru Reiterates Plan in Investing in the Youth and Creativity
CS Joe Mucheru has emphasized that the youth have the capacity to create more jobs for themselves than government through innovation. While speaking at...
Mucheru Orders Closure of Unlicensed Ecommerce Platforms
The last time we learned something about the National Addressing System (NAS) was about two years ago.
At that period, the CA announced that it...
Government-backed Ajira Digital Clubs Goes to All Kenya Universities
The Ajira Digital program that was launched by the ICT Ministry many years ago was a showcase that the youth could access gainful employment...
Mucheru Insists Foreign ICT Companies Must Give 30 Percent Ownership to Kenyans
The National ICT Policy 2019 was made into law in August 2020.
The law was developed to facilitate universal access to ICT infrastructure and services...
CS Mucheru Wants Smartphone Prices Lowered
The Cabinet Secretary for ICT Joe Mucheru has tasked the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) to develop ways that will see Kenyans buy and...
Kenya ICT Ministry Concludes Review of The National ICT Policy
The National ICT Policy was proposed a few years ago. The policy was first presented to ICT CS Joe Mucheru in 2016 and featured...
Kenya Blockchain Taskforce Findings Rally for Use Cases in Poll Transparency
There has been an overwhelming amount of media attention and talk surrounding blockchain over the past years. It has been rallied as a solution...
Data Protection and Privacy Bill 2018 Given a Go Ahead by ICT CS Mucheru
During the government’s initial campaign for Huduma Namba registration, the NIIMs database that should reportedly hone the delivery of services to Kenyans, it was...
Kenya Government Forms Taskforce to Aid Access of State Information
In coming days, access to crucial government information will be much easier thanks to a newly appointed taskforce of 15 people that will ensure...
Kenya Government Considers Dropping Microsoft Azure Following Week-Long Websites Suspension
For about a week, a number of government websites were suspended and visitors were met by a lovely blue page with the message, "Error...
Huduma Centre to Issue Unique Numbers for Customers as CS Mucheru Launches Connected Kenya 2018
Kenya’s CS for ICT Joe Mucheru has officially opened Connected Kenya Summit that is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The fair, for the first time,...
White Box, a Government-sponsored Innovators’ Hub, is Live
For the better part of 2018, the Kenyan government and the Ministry of ICT have been in the process of creating a platform or...
Kenya Finally Making Strides Towards Data Protection Laws
Kenya's ICT Cabinet Secretary, Joe Mucheru, on June 11, 2018, announced that the government is working on a draft data protection law that will...
Central Bank of Kenya and Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru Differ Over Bitcoin
Mucheru's stand puts him and CBK governor on opposing ends, both agree that blockchain is important but the issue still remains whether Bitcoin be regulated in Kenya.
Contentious ICT Practitioners Bill, 2016 Headed Back to Kenya’s Parliament
Sometime in June last year (2016), Kenya’s parliament passed a bill called ICT Practitioners Bill, 2016 which was meant to standardize ICT Practitioners in...
Telkom Kenya Limited Closes Multi-Billion Deal To Roll Out WiFi In Constituencies
Back in January, the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of ICT Mr. Joe Mucheru revealed that Members of Parliament, together with the National Government...
ICT CS says Local Paper misquoted him on Anonymous Blogging Story
The Kenyan blog-sphere has grown in leaps and bounds with bloggers challenging mainstream media houses as sources of news and information. The growth of...
Here is the ICT sector’s First 100 Days Wishlist for the ICT Cabinet Secretary
On Friday January 22nd 2016, stakeholders in the ICT industry from captains of industry to scholars and even enthusiasts converged at the Nairobi Serena...
Kenya Government seeks Private Sector Partnership in Increasing Fibre Optic Outlay
The government is seeking to partner with private sector players to complete the National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI) according to ICT CS Joe...
ICT CS Joe Mucheru offloads Stakes in ICT firms to Avoid Conflict of Interest
In Late November, President Uhuru Kenyatta reshuffled the Cabinet, which saw new members join the Cabinet. Among those who joined the Cabinet included Joe...
ICT Cabinet Secretary Nominee Joe Mucheru Opposes Splitting of Safaricom During Vetting
In Late November, President Uhuru Kenyatta reshuffled the Cabinet, which saw new members join the Cabinet. Among those who joined the Cabinet included Joe...
Google and Wananchi want you to see the convenience that is Wazi Wi-Fi
Only 6% of Kenya National internet capacity of 8400G(8.4Tbps) is in use, that's around 574G, and this goes to show we are really underutilising...
