Hi, Is this for real? Reading this, I kept asking myself "Is it April Fools Day?". On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:28 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
A leaked memo from the Kenya ICT Board indicates that they are at an advanced stage of launching a certification program for smart phone users, this has been necessitated by complaints emanating from telephone companies sent to CCK about users who send emails to the wrong people, leave their Bluetooth on which result in drained batteries and forgetting to turn off 3G streams thereby exhausting their data bundles.
The source of this leak cannot be published so as to protect their identity and also because they are not mandated to make statements on behalf of the organisation, in a related issue the Governors Steering Committee on Revenue Collection has proposed that the Chipuka Smartphone Users course be a mandatory certification that all seen carrying a smartphone must get, they intend to introduce a bylaw to enforce this and a fine of not less than 5,000/- be charged to anyone found using a smartphone without the certification.
On a less serious note, the government intends to spend 22 billion to acquire and role out 425,000 laptops where 28,000/- will be spend on the laptop itself and 23,750/- used to support each laptop which will include the training of 50 youths to develop content for the laptops. There is yet no budget for training of teachers but the amount includes purchase of solar panels at 20,000/- each, to reduce costs it has been proposed that each panel be shared between 2 laptops (Samsung laptop has built in solar panel).
How many of you lister's, including the laggards, has a certification for using a smartphone?
The cabinet secretary responsible for Information, Communication, and Technology should urgently provide technical assistance to the cabinet secretary for Education before he turns this noble project into the largest scandal the country has ever seen.
Regards
PS. How can we participate in making sure that this initiative meets its objective?
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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