Eight local universities are among 25 institutions which have submitted bids to provide 11,000 public primary schools with computer tablets when the first phase of the Sh17 billion laptop project takes off next year. Kenyatta University, University of Nairobi, Multimedia University, Moi University and Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology are among the institutions of higher learning that have submitted their bids. Also eying the project, now rebranded as the Digital Literacy Programme, are Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Meru University of Science and Technology and Strathmore Research and Consulting Centre. The curriculum will be regulated by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) and the project is being overseen by the Ministry of Information Communication and Technology through the ICT Authority. The laptop project tendering has previously been stalled by procurement scandals attracting legal battles in courts. http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Eight-varsities-eye-Sh17bn-bid-to-supply-... ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson