BPO/ITES Centre of Excellence Workshop 4th March 2010, 9 am – 1 pm
Dear Lister, v *As an update to the earlier reports please find below and update: * * * *Stakeholder Workshop: Information Technology-Business Process* *Outsourcing (IT-BPO) Centre of Excellence (COE)* * * *Center of Excellence Concept* Given the importance of the IT-BPO sector, for employment of youth in Kenya, the Government of Kenya is keen to take up a focused IT-BPO skills development initiative in close collaboration with the industry. As part of this initiative it is proposed to establish a Center of Excellence (COE) for IT-BPO in partnership with leading Kenyan/Global IT-BPO companies. The Center will impart training to Kenyan trainers in order to prepare them for training a large number of students for employment in the IT-BPO sector. The vision for the Center is that it will eventually become a regional training hub for the IT-BPO sector catering to training needs in the Africa region. It is proposed to invite leading Kenyan and global IT-BPO companies to partner with the COE, which will function as an umbrella institution for industry collaboration on IT-BPO talent development and skills excellence. For co-development of the COE, companies may choose to participate individually or as a consortium to leverage differing strengths (e.g. training companies may partner with leading global BPO providers). Invitation The Workshop is by invitation participating at the workshop in forging the future of the industry. Date: 4th March 2010, 9 am – 1 pm Venue: Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) - Workshop Program: - 0900-0945 Breakfast & Registration - 0945-1000 An overview for the COE for foundational skills for the ITES/BPO industry in Kenya – Rationale, Objectives, Deliverables and the role for all stakeholders –Paul Kukubo (KICTB) - 1000-1015 Skills gaps from the Industry perspective-Esther Muchiri (Chair, Skills Task Force) - 1015-1045 An overview of the ITES/BPO global scenario as well as the COE Framework –Presentation & Discussion-Jonathan De Luzuriaga (Philippines) - 1045-1115 Criteria for selection of an Anchor Institution – Presentation & Discussion – Prof. Tim Waema (University of Nairobi) - 1115-1145 Value proposition of the COE - Jonathan De Luzuriaga - 1145-1245 Discussion/Way Forward- Paul Kukubo (KICTB) - 1300 Lunch *Background and Purpose* * * Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is one of the pillars in the Government of Kenya’s Vision 2030 document. Kenya has developed a policy framework and defined some strategic directions (Kenya ICT Strategy 2006), one of which explicitly focuses on BPO as a key opportunity for realizing the country’s Information Communication and Technology (ICT) objectives. The Kenya Government is clear on improving its position as an ICT destination (regionally and internationally). The lead agency of the Kenya Government in promoting the country as an ICT hub is the Kenya ICT Board with the following objectives: 1. To develop, launch and sustain a globally compelling brand marketing campaign for Kenya ICT 2. To develop and promote competitive ICT industries in Kenya 3. To develop world class Kenyan ICT institutions 4. To increase ICT access, utilization for all Kenyans (become a principle driver in bridging the digital divide) With the above-mentioned objectives in place, Kenya ICT Board through the support of its parent ministry, Ministry of Information & Communication, the World Bank and other partners is tasked to create a Centers of Excellence specifically for the Information Technology – Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) industry. * * This is for information only and the invatations to relevant attendees among stakeholders have already been sent out. For more iformation contact our Project Manager BPO ITES, Andrew Lewela on alewela@ict.go.ke Thank you. Sincerely, Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 Cell: + 254 735 180001 website: www.ict.go.ke skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
Hi, How does one get invited to the meeting as I would be interested in attending Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> To: ke users <ke-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: Twahir Mohamed <tmohamed@ict.go.ke>; alewela <alewela@ict.go.ke> Sent: Thu, 25 February, 2010 14:59:03 Subject: [ke-internetusers] BPO/ITES Centre of Excellence Workshop 4th March 2010, 9 am – 1 pm Dear Lister, v As an update to the earlier reports please find below and update: Stakeholder Workshop: Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) Centre of Excellence (COE) Center of Excellence Concept Given the importance of the IT-BPO sector, for employment of youth in Kenya, the Government of Kenya is keen to take up a focused IT-BPO skills development initiative in close collaboration with the industry. As part of this initiative it is proposed to establish a Center of Excellence (COE) for IT-BPO in partnership with leading Kenyan/Global IT-BPO companies. The Center will impart training to Kenyan trainers in order to prepare them for training a large number of students for employment in the IT-BPO sector. The vision for the Center is that it will eventually become a regional training hub for the IT-BPO sector catering to training needs in the Africa region. It is proposed to invite leading Kenyan and global IT-BPO companies to partner with the COE, which will function as an umbrella institution for industry collaboration on IT-BPO talent development and skills excellence. For co-development of the COE, companies may choose to participate individually or as a consortium to leverage differing strengths (e.g. training companies may partner with leading global BPO providers). Invitation The Workshop is by invitation participating at the workshop in forging the future of the industry. Date: 4th March 2010, 9 am – 1 pm Venue: Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) * Workshop Program: * 0900-0945 Breakfast & Registration * 0945-1000 An overview for the COE for foundational skills for the ITES/BPO industry in Kenya – Rationale, Objectives, Deliverables and the role for all stakeholders –Paul Kukubo (KICTB) * 1000-1015 Skills gaps from the Industry perspective-Esther Muchiri (Chair, Skills Task Force) * 1015-1045 An overview of the ITES/BPO global scenario as well as the COE Framework –Presentation & Discussion-Jonathan De Luzuriaga (Philippines) * 1045-1115 Criteria for selection of an Anchor Institution – Presentation & Discussion – Prof. Tim Waema (University of Nairobi) * 1115-1145 Value proposition of the COE - Jonathan De Luzuriaga * 1145-1245 Discussion/Way Forward- Paul Kukubo (KICTB) * 1300 Lunch Background and Purpose Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is one of the pillars in the Government of Kenya’s Vision 2030 document. Kenya has developed a policy framework and defined some strategic directions (Kenya ICT Strategy 2006), one of which explicitly focuses on BPO as a key opportunity for realizing the country’s Information Communication and Technology (ICT) objectives. The Kenya Government is clear on improving its position as an ICT destination (regionally and internationally). The lead agency of the Kenya Government in promoting the country as an ICT hub is the Kenya ICT Board with the following objectives: 1. To develop, launch and sustain a globally compelling brand marketing campaign for Kenya ICT 2. To develop and promote competitive ICT industries in Kenya 3. To develop world class Kenyan ICT institutions 4. To increase ICT access, utilization for all Kenyans (become a principle driver in bridging the digital divide) With the above-mentioned objectives in place, Kenya ICT Board through the support of its parent ministry, Ministry of Information & Communication, the World Bank and other partners is tasked to create a Centers of Excellence specifically for the Information Technology – Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) industry. This is for information only and the invatations to relevant attendees among stakeholders have already been sent out. For more iformation contact our Project Manager BPO ITES, Andrew Lewela on alewela@ict.go.ke Thank you. Sincerely, Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 Cell: + 254 735 180001 website: www.ict.go.ke skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
Please contact Andrew lewela on alewela@ict.go.ke Regards, Paul Kukubo Sent from my iphone On 25 Feb 2010, at 17:19, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
How does one get invited to the meeting as I would be interested in attending
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
From: Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> To: ke users <ke-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: Twahir Mohamed <tmohamed@ict.go.ke>; alewela <alewela@ict.go.ke> Sent: Thu, 25 February, 2010 14:59:03 Subject: [ke-internetusers] BPO/ITES Centre of Excellence Workshop 4th March 2010, 9 am – 1 pm
Dear Lister, v
As an update to the earlier reports please find below and update:
Stakeholder Workshop: Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) Centre of Excellence (COE)
Center of Excellence Concept Given the importance of the IT-BPO sector, for employment of youth in Kenya, the Government of Kenya is keen to take up a focused IT-BPO skills development initiative in close collaboration with the industry. As part of this initiative it is proposed to establish a Center of Excellence (COE) for IT-BPO in partnership with leading Kenyan/Global IT-BPO companies. The Center will impart training to Kenyan trainers in order to prepare them for training a large number of students for employment in the IT-BPO sector. The vision for the Center is that it will eventually become a regional training hub for the IT-BPO sector catering to training needs in the Africa region.
It is proposed to invite leading Kenyan and global IT-BPO companies to partner with the COE, which will function as an umbrella institution for industry collaboration on IT-BPO talent development and skills excellence. For co-development of the COE, companies may choose to participate individually or as a consortium to leverage differing strengths (e.g. training companies may partner with leading global BPO providers). Invitation
The Workshop is by invitation participating at the workshop in forging the future of the industry. Date: 4th March 2010, 9 am – 1 pm Venue: Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) Workshop Program: 0900-0945 Breakfast & Registration 0945-1000 An overview for the COE for foundational skills for the ITES/BPO industry in Kenya – Rationale, Objectives, Deliverables and the role for all stakeholders –Paul Kukubo (KICTB) 1000-1015 Skills gaps from the Industry perspective-Esther Muchiri (Chair, Skills Task Force) 1015-1045 An overview of the ITES/BPO global scenario as well as the COE Framework –Presentation & Discussion-Jonathan De Luzuriaga (Phil ippines) 1045-1115 Criteria for selection of an Anchor Institution – Presenta tion & Discussion – Prof. Tim Waema (University of Nairobi) 1115-1145 Value proposition of the COE - Jonathan De Luzuriaga 1145-1245 Discussion/Way Forward- Paul Kukubo (KICTB) 1300 Lunch Background and Purpose
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is one of the pillars in the Government of Kenya’s Vision 2030 document. Kenya has developed a policy framework and defined some strategic directions (Kenya ICT Strategy 2006), one of which explicitly focuses on BPO as a key opportunity for realizing the country’s Information Communication an d Technology (ICT) objectives. The Kenya Government is clear on improving its position as an ICT destination (regionally and internationally). The lead agency of the Kenya Government in promoting the country as an ICT hub is the Kenya ICT Board with the following objectives:
To develop, launch and sustain a globally compelling brand marketing campaign for Kenya ICT To develop and promote competitive ICT industries in Kenya To develop world class Kenyan ICT institutions To increase ICT access, utilization for all Kenyans (become a principle driver in bridging the digital divide) With the above-mentioned objectives in place, Kenya ICT Board through the support of its parent ministry, Ministry of Information & Communication, the World Bank and other partners is tasked to create a Centers of Excellence specifically for the Information Technology – Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) industry.
This is for information only and the invatations to relevant attendees among stakeholders have already been sent out. For more iformation contact our Project Manager BPO ITES, Andrew Lewela on alewela@ict.go.ke
Thank you. Sincerely,
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960
Fax: +254 20 2211962 Cell: + 254 735 180001
website: www.ict.go.ke skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
Thought would be of interest to you. Kind regards B. K. Sang
Mr Sang, It was VERY sad indeed to see the girl child perform so poorly! What measures are being put in place to change this? When is digital curriculum, being developed by KIE going to be out and made available to schools? Years of research has shown that they greatly enhance teaching and learning - and promote self learning too. We have to deal with other factors that lead to poor performance, but I think multimedia curriuculum content needs to be availed to schools ASAP along with computerization. What became of the computerization program you were running? Some schools are still waiting for computers promised to them...many months and years down the line! Edith ________________________________ From: kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Barnabas K. Sang [bksang@education.go.ke] Sent: 04 March 2010 09:26 To: Edith Adera Cc: alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance Thought would be of interest to you. Kind regards B. K. Sang
Edith, Digitization of Content is ongoing at KIE with Form 1 & 2 done for all Subjects and work is ongoing for the other forms. Primary 4,5,6 & 7 have been digitized and work for other classes will soon start. The Ministry in collaboration with sector partners is organizing a Regional Education Conference on E-learning, 29 - 31 March 2010 at KIE, where issues on ICT Integration and use of digitized content will be discussed. MOE in the next year's budget has also factored in resources for availing the same to schools (particularly with ICT infrastructure). Current focus is not starting Computer Studies in schools, but empowering all teachers to use modern tools in curriculum delivery. English, Geography, History, Mathematics .... teachers should use ICT to make classes fun and educative for the learners. Learners should participate in the creation of content, sharing and collaborating in the classroom environment. ICT Integration programmes are underway in some of the institutions in the Ministry: CEMASTEA (focuses on INSET for teacher - not only science and mathematics, but all other subject areas) and KESI (focusing on education management and administration). KIE - digitization of content and setting of standards for publishers and interested content developers for use in Kenyan schools. Pertaining schools which got resources in support for ICT, the delays were occassioned by some providers admitting lack of capacity to deliver and yet they had been paid initial deposit. Legal process is underway to indemnify schools of such acts. In some instance, schools also delayed in awarding contracts, due to lack of capacity to interpret and use the new procurement law (management of procurement process). Kind regards B. K. Sang From: Edith Adera [mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke] Sent: 04 March 2010 09:32 To: Barnabas K. Sang Cc: alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: RE: KCSE Performance Mr Sang, It was VERY sad indeed to see the girl child perform so poorly! What measures are being put in place to change this? When is digital curriculum, being developed by KIE going to be out and made available to schools? Years of research has shown that they greatly enhance teaching and learning - and promote self learning too. We have to deal with other factors that lead to poor performance, but I think multimedia curriuculum content needs to be availed to schools ASAP along with computerization. What became of the computerization program you were running? Some schools are still waiting for computers promised to them...many months and years down the line! Edith ________________________________ From: kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Barnabas K. Sang [bksang@education.go.ke] Sent: 04 March 2010 09:26 To: Edith Adera Cc: alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance Thought would be of interest to you. Kind regards B. K. Sang
Mr Sang, Thanks for the detailed reply to Ediths queries. Apart from the girl child, I noted with concern that the performance of the sciences and Mathematics is hurting more than that of the humanities and languages. This is not news. Its our annual cry as an education body every march. Shouldnt our efforts at KIE be to develop content that will assist the delivery of these subject areas as clearly this is where the challenge is? It has also been 3 years since the initiative started at KIE? why has it taken this long? and is it possible to let us know ( offline) which schools have benfitted from the KIE content? As a player in this sector I am very interested to monitor the progress of digitzed content as a curriculum enrichment tool because we have been waiting in the sidelines since FEBRUARY 2008 for the MOE to release the report that the KIE provided them with on the evaluation of Digitzed content from the private sector that was to be used in the schools digitization program for the first 210 school nationwide. I am sure today we would have alteast been looking at a vast improvement in science and maths grades in over 200 schools. I think that the KIE initiative to digitze content for the schools is commendable but I hope it does fall prey to the challenges that KIE faced when it was responsible for publishing of text books? I thought we learnt our lesson then? futher more other countries seem to have realized that the teacher/student creation of content model is a failure and that outsourcing is the way to go. ( Uganda, Malaysia, India) Lastly, it is always important to try and do things ourselves after all how would we grow? but imagine if we refused the mobile phone, computer, the car and medical technology because we simply had to create it ourselves, not caring that others had the technology ready for us to use...where would be ? Fatma On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Barnabas K. Sang <bksang@education.go.ke>wrote:
Edith,
Digitization of Content is ongoing at KIE with Form 1 & 2 done for all Subjects and work is ongoing for the other forms.
Primary 4,5,6 & 7 have been digitized and work for other classes will soon start.
The Ministry in collaboration with sector partners is organizing a Regional Education Conference on E-learning, 29 – 31 March 2010 at KIE, where issues on ICT Integration and use of digitized content will be discussed. MOE in the next year’s budget has also factored in resources for availing the same to schools (particularly with ICT infrastructure). Current focus is not starting Computer Studies in schools, but empowering all teachers to use modern tools in curriculum delivery. English, Geography, History, Mathematics .... teachers should use ICT to make classes fun and educative for the learners. Learners should participate in the creation of content, sharing and collaborating in the classroom environment.
ICT Integration programmes are underway in some of the institutions in the Ministry: CEMASTEA (focuses on INSET for teacher – not only science and mathematics, but all other subject areas) and KESI (focusing on education management and administration). KIE – digitization of content and setting of standards for publishers and interested content developers for use in Kenyan schools.
Pertaining schools which got resources in support for ICT, the delays were occassioned by some providers admitting lack of capacity to deliver and yet they had been paid initial deposit. Legal process is underway to indemnify schools of such acts. In some instance, schools also delayed in awarding contracts, due to lack of capacity to interpret and use the new procurement law (management of procurement process).
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
*From:* Edith Adera [mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke] *Sent:* 04 March 2010 09:32 *To:* Barnabas K. Sang
*Cc:* alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* RE: KCSE Performance
Mr Sang,
It was VERY sad indeed to see the girl child perform so poorly! What measures are being put in place to change this?
When is digital curriculum, being developed by KIE going to be out and made available to schools? Years of research has shown that they greatly enhance teaching and learning - and promote self learning too. We have to deal with other factors that lead to poor performance, but I think multimedia curriuculum content needs to be availed to schools ASAP along with computerization.
What became of the computerization program you were running? Some schools are still waiting for computers promised to them...many months and years down the line!
Edith
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*From:* kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke[kictanet-bounces+eadera= idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Barnabas K. Sang [ bksang@education.go.ke] *Sent:* 04 March 2010 09:26 *To:* Edith Adera *Cc:* alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance
Thought would be of interest to you.
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
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Mr. Sang, I am glad to hear that the Ministry in collaboration with sector partners is organizing a Regional Education Conference on E-learning, 29 – 31 March 2010 at KIEand that KIE's digitization of content is ongoing. You stated the current focus is not starting Computer Studies in schools, but empowering all teachers to use modern tools in curriculum delivery. English, Geography, History, Mathematics .... teachers should use ICT to make classes fun and educative for the learners. Learners should participate in the creation of content, sharing and collaborating in the classroom environment. Though I agree with you in principal that we need to empower our teachers to use these “modern” tools to enhance their curriculum delivery. ICTs have been touted as potentially powerful enabling tools for educational change and reform. I strongly urge you to consider the different technologies vis-à-vis the different taxonomy levels in both primary and secondary students. When used appropriately, different ICTs are said to help expand access to education, strengthen the relevance of education to the increasingly digital workplace, and raise educational quality by, among others, helping make teaching and learning into an engaging, active process connected to real life. I recognize that Kenya has made remarkable progress putting in place a policy framework and implementation strategy for ICTs, being computers, the internet and telephony, complete with measurable outcomes and time frames (Vision 2030). Yet, ICTs are more than just these technologies; older technologies such as the telephone, radio and television, although now given less attention, have a longer and richer history as instructional tools. Kudos to KIE for leaning in this direction with their t-Learning initiative. I want to challenge the MOE and KIE to address the issue of appropriate pedagogical strategies vis-a-vis ICTs for Kenya. Though the push for ICT for E is global, we MUST remember that each country’s contextual issues are different. What works in developed countries will not work for Kenya “lock, stock and barrel”. Nevertheless, we do not need to reinvent the wheel, as aptly stated in a response to your post, “ imagine if we refused the mobile phone, computer, the car and medical technology because we simply had to create it ourselves, not caring that others had the technology ready for us to use...where would (we) be?” .... not to mention reinvention is very costly.... both in terms of time and money.... Food for thought, I think.... Seng On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Fatma Bashir <fatma.bashir@gmail.com>wrote:
Mr Sang,
Thanks for the detailed reply to Ediths queries. Apart from the girl child, I noted with concern that the performance of the sciences and Mathematics is hurting more than that of the humanities and languages. This is not news. Its our annual cry as an education body every march.
Shouldnt our efforts at KIE be to develop content that will assist the delivery of these subject areas as clearly this is where the challenge is? It has also been 3 years since the initiative started at KIE? why has it taken this long? and is it possible to let us know ( offline) which schools have benfitted from the KIE content? As a player in this sector I am very interested to monitor the progress of digitzed content as a curriculum enrichment tool because we have been waiting in the sidelines since FEBRUARY 2008 for the MOE to release the report that the KIE provided them with on the evaluation of Digitzed content from the private sector that was to be used in the schools digitization program for the first 210 school nationwide. I am sure today we would have alteast been looking at a vast improvement in science and maths grades in over 200 schools.
I think that the KIE initiative to digitze content for the schools is commendable but I hope it does fall prey to the challenges that KIE faced when it was responsible for publishing of text books? I thought we learnt our lesson then? futher more other countries seem to have realized that the teacher/student creation of content model is a failure and that outsourcing is the way to go. ( Uganda, Malaysia, India)
Lastly, it is always important to try and do things ourselves after all how would we grow? but imagine if we refused the mobile phone, computer, the car and medical technology because we simply had to create it ourselves, not caring that others had the technology ready for us to use...where would be ?
Fatma
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Barnabas K. Sang <bksang@education.go.ke>wrote:
Edith,
Digitization of Content is ongoing at KIE with Form 1 & 2 done for all Subjects and work is ongoing for the other forms.
Primary 4,5,6 & 7 have been digitized and work for other classes will soon start.
The Ministry in collaboration with sector partners is organizing a Regional Education Conference on E-learning, 29 – 31 March 2010 at KIE, where issues on ICT Integration and use of digitized content will be discussed. MOE in the next year’s budget has also factored in resources for availing the same to schools (particularly with ICT infrastructure). Current focus is not starting Computer Studies in schools, but empowering all teachers to use modern tools in curriculum delivery. English, Geography, History, Mathematics .... teachers should use ICT to make classes fun and educative for the learners. Learners should participate in the creation of content, sharing and collaborating in the classroom environment.
ICT Integration programmes are underway in some of the institutions in the Ministry: CEMASTEA (focuses on INSET for teacher – not only science and mathematics, but all other subject areas) and KESI (focusing on education management and administration). KIE – digitization of content and setting of standards for publishers and interested content developers for use in Kenyan schools.
Pertaining schools which got resources in support for ICT, the delays were occassioned by some providers admitting lack of capacity to deliver and yet they had been paid initial deposit. Legal process is underway to indemnify schools of such acts. In some instance, schools also delayed in awarding contracts, due to lack of capacity to interpret and use the new procurement law (management of procurement process).
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
*From:* Edith Adera [mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke] *Sent:* 04 March 2010 09:32 *To:* Barnabas K. Sang
*Cc:* alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* RE: KCSE Performance
Mr Sang,
It was VERY sad indeed to see the girl child perform so poorly! What measures are being put in place to change this?
When is digital curriculum, being developed by KIE going to be out and made available to schools? Years of research has shown that they greatly enhance teaching and learning - and promote self learning too. We have to deal with other factors that lead to poor performance, but I think multimedia curriuculum content needs to be availed to schools ASAP along with computerization.
What became of the computerization program you were running? Some schools are still waiting for computers promised to them...many months and years down the line!
Edith
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*From:* kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke[kictanet-bounces+eadera= idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Barnabas K. Sang [ bksang@education.go.ke] *Sent:* 04 March 2010 09:26 *To:* Edith Adera *Cc:* alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance
Thought would be of interest to you.
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
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Hi Akich, Fatma & Mincy, et al Rightly, your observations are true in some instances. But recalling even in the old days when KIE printed textbooks, the ultimate source is one, even today: the teacher. Why should someone else develop content rather than the teacher? Ofcourse the answer is capacity building and preparedness of our institutions to facilitate teachers play that role. KIE has finalized the standards and guidelines aimed at harmonizing the evaluation process for both electronic and print learning materials, to guide publishers / content suppliers in developing quality digital materials appropriate for use in Kenyan schools. This has been a process, considering that such could not take place two years ago. This marks the start of evaluation of digital materials and approval for use. We know some content has been in schools long before this exercise, and has been referred to as supplementary materials that any school or institution could choose to acquire and use in curriculum delivery. Case in mind is NEPAD E-Schools and even most of the 210 E-Schools facilitate by gok in previous periods. Some public-private sector partners including NGOs too have facilitate a number of interventions in this area. This year, all digital content materials will be included in the popular yellow booklet that guide schools in selecting teaching materials (both print and electronic) for use by teachers and students. Performance of subjects have been more or less the same graphically in the last five years, if one checked the grades and mean scores. The good news is that, both policy makers and implementers are engaged in hard-soul-searching questions on how to reverse this phenomenon. Strategies that would enhance this engagement are highly welcomed. Mincy, MOE has put in place various strategies to get deeply involved on issues of pedagogy in ICT4E. We have ICT Integration Committee which assesses interventions in the eyes of pedagogy-> teacher professional development, collaboration and sharing, curriculum delivery and access (considering digital divide). Comments noted on leapfrog and avoiding re-invent of effort. For top 100 students, I have attached list of all A- and As and link to schools. That might perhaps help you as key stakeholder have more insight. I though they were few only to realise they are more than 5,337 Candidates, of which 1,685 Girls. Kind regards B. K. Sang From: Fatma Bashir [mailto:fatma.bashir@gmail.com] Sent: 04 March 2010 12:06 To: Barnabas K. Sang Cc: alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance Mr Sang, Thanks for the detailed reply to Ediths queries. Apart from the girl child, I noted with concern that the performance of the sciences and Mathematics is hurting more than that of the humanities and languages. This is not news. Its our annual cry as an education body every march. Shouldnt our efforts at KIE be to develop content that will assist the delivery of these subject areas as clearly this is where the challenge is? It has also been 3 years since the initiative started at KIE? why has it taken this long? and is it possible to let us know ( offline) which schools have benfitted from the KIE content? As a player in this sector I am very interested to monitor the progress of digitzed content as a curriculum enrichment tool because we have been waiting in the sidelines since FEBRUARY 2008 for the MOE to release the report that the KIE provided them with on the evaluation of Digitzed content from the private sector that was to be used in the schools digitization program for the first 210 school nationwide. I am sure today we would have alteast been looking at a vast improvement in science and maths grades in over 200 schools. I think that the KIE initiative to digitze content for the schools is commendable but I hope it does fall prey to the challenges that KIE faced when it was responsible for publishing of text books? I thought we learnt our lesson then? futher more other countries seem to have realized that the teacher/student creation of content model is a failure and that outsourcing is the way to go. ( Uganda, Malaysia, India) Lastly, it is always important to try and do things ourselves after all how would we grow? but imagine if we refused the mobile phone, computer, the car and medical technology because we simply had to create it ourselves, not caring that others had the technology ready for us to use...where would be ? Fatma On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Barnabas K. Sang <bksang@education.go.ke<mailto:bksang@education.go.ke>> wrote: Edith, Digitization of Content is ongoing at KIE with Form 1 & 2 done for all Subjects and work is ongoing for the other forms. Primary 4,5,6 & 7 have been digitized and work for other classes will soon start. The Ministry in collaboration with sector partners is organizing a Regional Education Conference on E-learning, 29 - 31 March 2010 at KIE, where issues on ICT Integration and use of digitized content will be discussed. MOE in the next year's budget has also factored in resources for availing the same to schools (particularly with ICT infrastructure). Current focus is not starting Computer Studies in schools, but empowering all teachers to use modern tools in curriculum delivery. English, Geography, History, Mathematics .... teachers should use ICT to make classes fun and educative for the learners. Learners should participate in the creation of content, sharing and collaborating in the classroom environment. ICT Integration programmes are underway in some of the institutions in the Ministry: CEMASTEA (focuses on INSET for teacher - not only science and mathematics, but all other subject areas) and KESI (focusing on education management and administration). KIE - digitization of content and setting of standards for publishers and interested content developers for use in Kenyan schools. Pertaining schools which got resources in support for ICT, the delays were occassioned by some providers admitting lack of capacity to deliver and yet they had been paid initial deposit. Legal process is underway to indemnify schools of such acts. In some instance, schools also delayed in awarding contracts, due to lack of capacity to interpret and use the new procurement law (management of procurement process). Kind regards B. K. Sang From: Edith Adera [mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke<mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke>] Sent: 04 March 2010 09:32 To: Barnabas K. Sang Cc: alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: RE: KCSE Performance Mr Sang, It was VERY sad indeed to see the girl child perform so poorly! What measures are being put in place to change this? When is digital curriculum, being developed by KIE going to be out and made available to schools? Years of research has shown that they greatly enhance teaching and learning - and promote self learning too. We have to deal with other factors that lead to poor performance, but I think multimedia curriuculum content needs to be availed to schools ASAP along with computerization. What became of the computerization program you were running? Some schools are still waiting for computers promised to them...many months and years down the line! Edith ________________________________ From: kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke<http://idrc.or.ke/>@lists.kictanet.or.ke<http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/> [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke<http://idrc.or.ke/>@lists.kictanet.or.ke<http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/>] On Behalf Of Barnabas K. Sang [bksang@education.go.ke<mailto:bksang@education.go.ke>] Sent: 04 March 2010 09:26 To: Edith Adera Cc: alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance Thought would be of interest to you. Kind regards B. K. Sang _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: fatma.bashir@gmail.com<mailto:fatma.bashir@gmail.com> Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/fatma.bashir%40gmail.co...
Mr Sang, Thanks for this response, this is good. I look forward to the conference and the due inclusion of the digital learning materials in the yellow (orange?) book, although you may not be aware that this activity last year (2009) was fraught with confusion over the discription of econtent vis a vis ebooks and digitzed curriculum etc. I do hope this year will be more beneficial as there are very many content providers out there and I am sure that they will be more than willing to get genuine direction from KIE in order to achieve certification for their products to be used in our schools to improve the lives of our children. Small clarification if I may, there are a total of 52 processes undergone in the developement of educational content. The teachers oversees 32 of these processes. the balance is left for the experts in various fields such as fine artists, visualizers, computer whiz kids and all. This proces by ratio takes up 70% of the activity with the teachers accounting for 30 % and this includes all quality checks and peer to peer evaluations as well. I hope that this helps KIE in their efforts. Mr Sang if you could send us the report on the Nepad eSchools together with the list of schools that are enjoying the form 1 & 2 KIE digitized curriculum, albeit offline, it would be most appreciated as the reports we get off the field do not flatter these two initiatives and I would love to get the official unbiased ministry position. regards Fatma On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Barnabas K. Sang <bksang@education.go.ke>wrote:
Hi Akich, Fatma & Mincy, et al
Rightly, your observations are true in some instances. But recalling even in the old days when KIE printed textbooks, the ultimate source is one, even today: the teacher. Why should someone else develop content rather than the teacher?
Ofcourse the answer is capacity building and preparedness of our institutions to facilitate teachers play that role.
KIE has finalized the standards and guidelines aimed at harmonizing the evaluation process for both electronic and print learning materials, to guide publishers / content suppliers in developing quality digital materials appropriate for use in Kenyan schools. This has been a process, considering that such could not take place two years ago. This marks the start of evaluation of digital materials and approval for use. We know some content has been in schools long before this exercise, and has been referred to as supplementary materials that any school or institution could choose to acquire and use in curriculum delivery. Case in mind is NEPAD E-Schools and even most of the 210 E-Schools facilitate by gok in previous periods. Some public-private sector partners including NGOs too have facilitate a number of interventions in this area.
This year, all digital content materials will be included in the popular yellow booklet that guide schools in selecting teaching materials (both print and electronic) for use by teachers and students.
Performance of subjects have been more or less the same graphically in the last five years, if one checked the grades and mean scores. The good news is that, both policy makers and implementers are engaged in hard-soul-searching questions on how to reverse this phenomenon. Strategies that would enhance this engagement are highly welcomed.
Mincy, MOE has put in place various strategies to get deeply involved on issues of pedagogy in ICT4E. We have ICT Integration Committee which assesses interventions in the eyes of pedagogy-> teacher professional development, collaboration and sharing, curriculum delivery and access (considering digital divide). Comments noted on leapfrog and avoiding re-invent of effort.
For top 100 students, I have attached list of all A- and As and link to schools. That might perhaps help you as key stakeholder have more insight. I though they were few only to realise they are more than 5,337 Candidates, of which 1,685 Girls.
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
*From:* Fatma Bashir [mailto:fatma.bashir@gmail.com] *Sent:* 04 March 2010 12:06
*To:* Barnabas K. Sang *Cc:* alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance
Mr Sang,
Thanks for the detailed reply to Ediths queries. Apart from the girl child, I noted with concern that the performance of the sciences and Mathematics is hurting more than that of the humanities and languages. This is not news. Its our annual cry as an education body every march.
Shouldnt our efforts at KIE be to develop content that will assist the delivery of these subject areas as clearly this is where the challenge is? It has also been 3 years since the initiative started at KIE? why has it taken this long? and is it possible to let us know ( offline) which schools have benfitted from the KIE content?
As a player in this sector I am very interested to monitor the progress of digitzed content as a curriculum enrichment tool because we have been waiting in the sidelines since FEBRUARY 2008 for the MOE to release the report that the KIE provided them with on the evaluation of Digitzed content from the private sector that was to be used in the schools digitization program for the first 210 school nationwide. I am sure today we would have alteast been looking at a vast improvement in science and maths grades in over 200 schools.
I think that the KIE initiative to digitze content for the schools is commendable but I hope it does fall prey to the challenges that KIE faced when it was responsible for publishing of text books? I thought we learnt our lesson then? futher more other countries seem to have realized that the teacher/student creation of content model is a failure and that outsourcing is the way to go. ( Uganda, Malaysia, India)
Lastly, it is always important to try and do things ourselves after all how would we grow? but imagine if we refused the mobile phone, computer, the car and medical technology because we simply had to create it ourselves, not caring that others had the technology ready for us to use...where would be ?
Fatma
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Barnabas K. Sang <bksang@education.go.ke> wrote:
Edith,
Digitization of Content is ongoing at KIE with Form 1 & 2 done for all Subjects and work is ongoing for the other forms.
Primary 4,5,6 & 7 have been digitized and work for other classes will soon start.
The Ministry in collaboration with sector partners is organizing a Regional Education Conference on E-learning, 29 – 31 March 2010 at KIE, where issues on ICT Integration and use of digitized content will be discussed. MOE in the next year’s budget has also factored in resources for availing the same to schools (particularly with ICT infrastructure). Current focus is not starting Computer Studies in schools, but empowering all teachers to use modern tools in curriculum delivery. English, Geography, History, Mathematics .... teachers should use ICT to make classes fun and educative for the learners. Learners should participate in the creation of content, sharing and collaborating in the classroom environment.
ICT Integration programmes are underway in some of the institutions in the Ministry: CEMASTEA (focuses on INSET for teacher – not only science and mathematics, but all other subject areas) and KESI (focusing on education management and administration). KIE – digitization of content and setting of standards for publishers and interested content developers for use in Kenyan schools.
Pertaining schools which got resources in support for ICT, the delays were occassioned by some providers admitting lack of capacity to deliver and yet they had been paid initial deposit. Legal process is underway to indemnify schools of such acts. In some instance, schools also delayed in awarding contracts, due to lack of capacity to interpret and use the new procurement law (management of procurement process).
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
*From:* Edith Adera [mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke] *Sent:* 04 March 2010 09:32 *To:* Barnabas K. Sang
*Cc:* alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
*Subject:* RE: KCSE Performance
Mr Sang,
It was VERY sad indeed to see the girl child perform so poorly! What measures are being put in place to change this?
When is digital curriculum, being developed by KIE going to be out and made available to schools? Years of research has shown that they greatly enhance teaching and learning - and promote self learning too. We have to deal with other factors that lead to poor performance, but I think multimedia curriuculum content needs to be availed to schools ASAP along with computerization.
What became of the computerization program you were running? Some schools are still waiting for computers promised to them...many months and years down the line!
Edith
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*From:* kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke[kictanet-bounces+eadera= idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Barnabas K. Sang [ bksang@education.go.ke] *Sent:* 04 March 2010 09:26 *To:* Edith Adera *Cc:* alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance
Thought would be of interest to you.
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
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Barnabas, Good to hear that digitization is on-going.Who is digitizing, KIE? Can this work be outsourced so we move to Form 4 content with quick speed? What about some of the schools that had their teachers trained over 8 months ago and are waiting for the computers for their schools to date? How can this be resolved, especially if they are given no updates? I know some of such schools and they are part of the Sega Silicon Valley Project, a wonderful and very inspiring project that many other digital villages can adapt. Kind regards, Gilda Quoting "Barnabas K. Sang" <bksang@education.go.ke>:
Edith,
Digitization of Content is ongoing at KIE with Form 1 & 2 done for all Subjects and work is ongoing for the other forms.
Primary 4,5,6 & 7 have been digitized and work for other classes will soon start.
The Ministry in collaboration with sector partners is organizing a Regional Education Conference on E-learning, 29 - 31 March 2010 at KIE, where issues on ICT Integration and use of digitized content will be discussed. MOE in the next year's budget has also factored in resources for availing the same to schools (particularly with ICT infrastructure). Current focus is not starting Computer Studies in schools, but empowering all teachers to use modern tools in curriculum delivery. English, Geography, History, Mathematics .... teachers should use ICT to make classes fun and educative for the learners. Learners should participate in the creation of content, sharing and collaborating in the classroom environment.
ICT Integration programmes are underway in some of the institutions in the Ministry: CEMASTEA (focuses on INSET for teacher - not only science and mathematics, but all other subject areas) and KESI (focusing on education management and administration). KIE - digitization of content and setting of standards for publishers and interested content developers for use in Kenyan schools.
Pertaining schools which got resources in support for ICT, the delays were occassioned by some providers admitting lack of capacity to deliver and yet they had been paid initial deposit. Legal process is underway to indemnify schools of such acts. In some instance, schools also delayed in awarding contracts, due to lack of capacity to interpret and use the new procurement law (management of procurement process).
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
From: Edith Adera [mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke] Sent: 04 March 2010 09:32 To: Barnabas K. Sang Cc: alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: RE: KCSE Performance
Mr Sang,
It was VERY sad indeed to see the girl child perform so poorly! What measures are being put in place to change this?
When is digital curriculum, being developed by KIE going to be out and made available to schools? Years of research has shown that they greatly enhance teaching and learning - and promote self learning too. We have to deal with other factors that lead to poor performance, but I think multimedia curriuculum content needs to be availed to schools ASAP along with computerization.
What became of the computerization program you were running? Some schools are still waiting for computers promised to them...many months and years down the line!
Edith
________________________________ From: kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Barnabas K. Sang [bksang@education.go.ke] Sent: 04 March 2010 09:26 To: Edith Adera Cc: alewela; ke users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance Thought would be of interest to you.
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
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Many thanks Barnabas for sharing this valuable information. Would you be having the list of top 100 candidates national and provincial categories with names of schools in which the candidates sat for their KCSE exams? If you do, kindly share it. The way the list is published in the media only gives incomplete information. Would you imagine if they announced the names of the winners during the Olympic Games and then they only play the national anthem without mentioning the countries they represent, (in our case the Index numbers represent schools). In the case of Olympic games, one has to go through the catalogue and find out which country is represented by such a flag; similarly, in the case of KCSE relults, those few who knows index numbers for various schools. I am of the view citizens should never be denied information they deserve. All in all your Ministry (MoE) and the KNEC has made good progress by incorporating ICT tools while releasing results. This has greatly saved parents and candidates the costs of running to schools, (some of them miles away) for their results. May God bless this nation to keep moving in the right direction at competitive speed. Akich Kwach ----- Original Message ----- From: Barnabas K. Sang To: kwach@archway-productions.com Cc: alewela ; ke users ; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [kictanet] KCSE Performance Thought would be of interest to you. Kind regards B. K. Sang ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: kwach@archway-productions.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kwach%40archway-product...
Hi Sang, Thanks for these statistics. Any chance we can get an analysis of performance along the subjects? Where can we get such statistics? On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Barnabas K. Sang <bksang@education.go.ke>wrote:
Thought would be of interest to you.
Kind regards
B. K. Sang
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participants (10)
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Akich Kwach -
Barnabas K. Sang -
Dorcas Muthoni -
Edith Adera -
Fatma Bashir -
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Paul Kukubo -
pkukubo＠ict.go.ke
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robert yawe