Online Interview with PS Ndemo: Day 1 of 5 ICT in Education
Dr, Ndemo, 1. Are you satisfied with the current state of affairs with regard to ICT in education? 2. Can you highlight some of the gains the country has attained with regard to ICT in education, what is your vision for the education sector going forwad? Thank you -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno
GG/Barack, thanks for the interesting and important thread. Hopefully, people with vision and integrity will step out to cleanse those weekend public rallies. This discussion shows that a lot of info/knowledge exists but is not shared. So, in a sense, Kenya's lack of development and even the hunger is about an information/ed imbalance. I would suggest that the PS primarily supports network availability in all corners of the country. I watched some people in Marsabit walk over 30kms to climb a tree where, when lucky, catch a network. With google in Kiswahili, imagine the resource these folks are missing and how that could translate into solving their immediate problems. On that note, I am looking for the recipe for sorghum ugali (google sites focus on how healthy it is but I cant find a recipe). With the uncertainty on GMO maize, I am weaning myself of that good white stuff and plan on eating the red. I think many perennially hungry folk would also benefit from such info. Wamuyu Quoting Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>:
Dr, Ndemo,
1. Are you satisfied with the current state of affairs with regard to ICT in education? 2. Can you highlight some of the gains the country has attained with regard to ICT in education, what is your vision for the education sector going forwad?
Thank you -- Barrack O. Otieno
+254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno
Thank you Dr. Ndemo for bringing interesting facts to fore, the example you chose of the airport hit the nail on the head, Wamuyu also brings in interesting perspectives, Dr. Ndemo are there specific interventions required from the private sector and civil society to bridge the gap?, recently you made a call for volunteers and the response was great, it just shows that there are willing Kenyans out there but they don't know where to start, to be specific what are some of the opportunities that the private sector and civil society might not be seeing and what would you expect of them to make this vision of ICT in education a reality?, Listers feel free to contribute to this discussion.. On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyu@soko-id.co.ke>wrote:
GG/Barack, thanks for the interesting and important thread. Hopefully, people with vision and integrity will step out to cleanse those weekend public rallies.
This discussion shows that a lot of info/knowledge exists but is not shared. So, in a sense, Kenya's lack of development and even the hunger is about an information/ed imbalance. I would suggest that the PS primarily supports network availability in all corners of the country. I watched some people in Marsabit walk over 30kms to climb a tree where, when lucky, catch a network. With google in Kiswahili, imagine the resource these folks are missing and how that could translate into solving their immediate problems.
On that note, I am looking for the recipe for sorghum ugali (google sites focus on how healthy it is but I cant find a recipe). With the uncertainty on GMO maize, I am weaning myself of that good white stuff and plan on eating the red. I think many perennially hungry folk would also benefit from such info.
Wamuyu
Quoting Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>:
Dr, Ndemo,
1. Are you satisfied with the current state of affairs with regard to ICT in education? 2. Can you highlight some of the gains the country has attained with
regard to ICT in education, what is your vision for the education sector going forwad?
Thank you -- Barrack O. Otieno
+254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno
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Barrack, Yes. We must start building a new private sector. We must move from the current crop with very many seeking to self actualize when most of Kenya is is seeking to climb Maslaw's hierachy if needs. We mix potatoes and anions when trying to deal with education in this country. Expanding education to schools should be discussed at I-hub like places where you get fresh ideas. I know this is controversial but this what must be done to see change. Once we sought that out, you will see greater activities especially on e-commerce. My foreign policy will simply focus on Africa to create greater opportunities for utlizing our only resource - human capital in createing a level playing field. This is because 5% increase in intro Africa trade will translate to some $100 billion almost three times as much as what we beg in form of aid. Further of the fastest growing economies today, six are from Africa. We must exploit opportunities in Africa by creating awareness through these technologies. We need more content. Regards Ndemo.
Thank you Dr. Ndemo for bringing interesting facts to fore, the example you chose of the airport hit the nail on the head, Wamuyu also brings in interesting perspectives, Dr. Ndemo are there specific interventions required from the private sector and civil society to bridge the gap?, recently you made a call for volunteers and the response was great, it just shows that there are willing Kenyans out there but they don't know where to start, to be specific what are some of the opportunities that the private sector and civil society might not be seeing and what would you expect of them to make this vision of ICT in education a reality?, Listers feel free to contribute to this discussion..
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyu@soko-id.co.ke>wrote:
GG/Barack, thanks for the interesting and important thread. Hopefully, people with vision and integrity will step out to cleanse those weekend public rallies.
This discussion shows that a lot of info/knowledge exists but is not shared. So, in a sense, Kenya's lack of development and even the hunger is about an information/ed imbalance. I would suggest that the PS primarily supports network availability in all corners of the country. I watched some people in Marsabit walk over 30kms to climb a tree where, when lucky, catch a network. With google in Kiswahili, imagine the resource these folks are missing and how that could translate into solving their immediate problems.
On that note, I am looking for the recipe for sorghum ugali (google sites focus on how healthy it is but I cant find a recipe). With the uncertainty on GMO maize, I am weaning myself of that good white stuff and plan on eating the red. I think many perennially hungry folk would also benefit from such info.
Wamuyu
Quoting Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>:
Dr, Ndemo,
1. Are you satisfied with the current state of affairs with regard to ICT in education? 2. Can you highlight some of the gains the country has attained with
regard to ICT in education, what is your vision for the education sector going forwad?
Thank you -- Barrack O. Otieno
+254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno
-- Barrack O. Otieno Afriregister Ltd (Kenya) www.afrire <http://www.afriregister.com>gister.bi, www.afriregister.com<http://www.afriergister.com> <http://www.afriregister.com>ICANN accredited registrar +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno
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Wamuyu, On connectivity, CCK will sort this out through the Universal Service Fund. From time to time we request some operators to lay infrastructure where they are not able to make any returns. In the next few days we advertize the roll out of LTE and one of the requirement is coverage in all 47 counties within 12 months. On sorghum ugali is a business venture in content development. The private sector should take up this. The last time we worked on Githeri recipes, there were 110 different types. These need to be in some recipe application where you get recipes on demand for Ksh. 20. Some 5 million people cook every day. Even if 1% sought the assistance of recipe content daily, you will make a cool one million daily. Let us not allow google to take this. Regards Ndemo.
GG/Barack, thanks for the interesting and important thread. Hopefully, people with vision and integrity will step out to cleanse those weekend public rallies.
This discussion shows that a lot of info/knowledge exists but is not shared. So, in a sense, Kenya's lack of development and even the hunger is about an information/ed imbalance. I would suggest that the PS primarily supports network availability in all corners of the country. I watched some people in Marsabit walk over 30kms to climb a tree where, when lucky, catch a network. With google in Kiswahili, imagine the resource these folks are missing and how that could translate into solving their immediate problems.
On that note, I am looking for the recipe for sorghum ugali (google sites focus on how healthy it is but I cant find a recipe). With the uncertainty on GMO maize, I am weaning myself of that good white stuff and plan on eating the red. I think many perennially hungry folk would also benefit from such info.
Wamuyu
Quoting Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>:
Dr, Ndemo,
1. Are you satisfied with the current state of affairs with regard to ICT in education? 2. Can you highlight some of the gains the country has attained with regard to ICT in education, what is your vision for the education sector going forwad?
Thank you -- Barrack O. Otieno
+254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno
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Barrack, The answer to your first question is no. The parception out there is that we are doing fine. Although we introduced ICDL as a tandard, we still have not embraced minimum ICT literacy levels in the country. We must be as competitive as any other country that is why I am disappointed that we no not like standards. ICT in schools is not wide spread due to infrastructural peoblems and resistance by teachers in embracing new technologies. This undermines overall objective of developing capacity at all levels. In most international airports, they are removing help desks assuming everybody understands computer basics. It is often embarracing to see a queue of Africans in Amstaerdam wanting help with the ticket dispensing machines. It has become some form of discrimination by choice. This is why we need ICT education to be compulsory not only in schools but in work place. In my earlier postings I have deliberately talked about end to end government. This will require massive education in order to optimally utilize the new technologies that we intend to put in place. Much of this should be done in schools. Although ICT infrastructures covers virtually the whole country, we have not utilized the resource as I would have wanted. In a country like Kenya we can leapfrog into a modern state. We have subsidized broadband to Universities and colleges but you see very little content from these institutions. The private sector too has not seen the opportunities that lie in massive content that is required of a knowledge economy. I must say that we have some great capacities here in application development. It is the private sector that must harness this and create wealth out of it. The trouble the rest of the world is watching and soon you will find brain drain out of here. We have great plans for education going forward. We shall utilize all available technologies to reach every Kenyan. For example earlier on I said we need to use DTH to get to every school. All we need at the school is a TV set the rest can be met. Regards Ndemo.
Dr, Ndemo,
1. Are you satisfied with the current state of affairs with regard to ICT in education? 2. Can you highlight some of the gains the country has attained with regard to ICT in education, what is your vision for the education sector going forwad?
Thank you -- Barrack O. Otieno
+254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno
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Dr Ndemo First of all well done on a vision well thought of. I would like to comment on
ICT in schools is not wide spread due to infrastructural peoblems and resistance by teachers in embracing new technologies. This undermines overall objective of developing capacity at all levels.
In Intel's experience of working with teachers in Kenya for the last 3 years, teachers are not the problem for the ineffective spread of ICT in schools. We find Kenyan teachers are more enthusiastic than most countries in Africa in embracing ICT; in fact we get so many requests for ICT training but without support from MoE we cannot take the training out to teachers fast enough. Wherever we have trained teachers, we are already seeing great impact stories and these teachers are taking ICT in the classroom to the next level of content usage and generation. Thanks Suraj Shah On 8/3/11 11:34 AM, "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Barrack, The answer to your first question is no. The parception out there is that we are doing fine. Although we introduced ICDL as a tandard, we still have not embraced minimum ICT literacy levels in the country. We must be as competitive as any other country that is why I am disappointed that we no not like standards.
ICT in schools is not wide spread due to infrastructural peoblems and resistance by teachers in embracing new technologies. This undermines overall objective of developing capacity at all levels. In most international airports, they are removing help desks assuming everybody understands computer basics. It is often embarracing to see a queue of Africans in Amstaerdam wanting help with the ticket dispensing machines. It has become some form of discrimination by choice. This is why we need ICT education to be compulsory not only in schools but in work place.
In my earlier postings I have deliberately talked about end to end government. This will require massive education in order to optimally utilize the new technologies that we intend to put in place. Much of this should be done in schools.
Although ICT infrastructures covers virtually the whole country, we have not utilized the resource as I would have wanted. In a country like Kenya we can leapfrog into a modern state. We have subsidized broadband to Universities and colleges but you see very little content from these institutions. The private sector too has not seen the opportunities that lie in massive content that is required of a knowledge economy.
I must say that we have some great capacities here in application development. It is the private sector that must harness this and create wealth out of it. The trouble the rest of the world is watching and soon you will find brain drain out of here.
We have great plans for education going forward. We shall utilize all available technologies to reach every Kenyan. For example earlier on I said we need to use DTH to get to every school. All we need at the school is a TV set the rest can be met.
Regards
Ndemo.
Dr, Ndemo,
1. Are you satisfied with the current state of affairs with regard to ICT in education? 2. Can you highlight some of the gains the country has attained with regard to ICT in education, what is your vision for the education sector going forwad?
Thank you -- Barrack O. Otieno
+254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno
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