encourage integration of digital technologies
into the educational and vocational system at
all levels to ensure that our current and future
workforce is prepared for the changes that are
happening now.
Skills: It is the Government’s position that
all Kenyans should become proficient users of
appropriate digital technology so that they can
benefit from the sea-change currently
underway. This policy seeks to build on the
already universal use of mobile digital money
and inculcate widespread adoption of cognate
digital services, goods and activities.
6.1.4 Accessibility
The Government will provide an ICT
environment fully accessible to persons with
disabilities. The Government of Kenya is fully
committed to providing equal treatment to
people with disabilities with respect to the use
and benefit of ICT services, programs, goods
and facilities in a manner that respects their
dignity and that is equitable in relation to the
broader public.
Kenya is a signatory to the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD), adopted by the UN General
Assembly on 13th December 2006. The
Convention stipulates that Persons with
Disabilities have a right to access to
information through different mediums with
Article 9 covering accessibility including ICTs
while Article 30 covers television programmes,
films, theatre and other cultural activities. The
World Health Organization estimates that
about ten per cent of the world’s population has
some type of disability.
This policy mandates full accessibility for
persons with disabilities. All public and
government communications will be suitably
instrumented.
The Government will take measures to:
4. Ensure that persons with disabilities can
exercise the right to access to information,
freedom of expression and opinion;
5. Require both public and private entities that
render services to the public to provide
information and services in accessible and
usable formats for persons with disabilities;
6. Require content producers for distribution
and public consumption in Kenya to
produce such content in accessible format;
7. Ensure that websites of government
departments and agencies comply with
international web accessibility standards
and are accessible for persons with
disabilities;
8. Provide incentives to providers of
accessible technology solutions including
software, hardware and applications;
9. Take such measures as will lessen the
burden of acquisition of accessible
technologies and associated devices for
PWDs through fiscal means such as funding
acquisitions, etc.;
10. Ensure that licensed providers of
telecommunications
services
make
available
services
and
supporting
technologies for persons with disabilities
including emergency services, accessible
public phones and relay services to enable
persons with speech, hearing and seeing
disabilities to communicate with the rest of
society;
11. Ensure existing works in print format to be
adapted
into
accessible
format
transformative forms which can be used by
the blind without any liability; and
1. Ensure that ICT services and emergency
communications made available to the
public are provided in alternative accessible
formats for persons with disabilities (PWD);
12. Promote Research and Development for ICT
access for Persons with Disabilities.
2. Review existing legislation and regulations
to promote ICT accessibility for PWDs in
consultation
with
organisations
representing PWDs among others;
6.2.1 Background
3. Promote the design, production and
distribution of accessible ICT at an early
stage;
Ministry of ICT, Kenya
6.2 The Market
This ICT policy has been formulated to spur
economic growth, recognising ICTs as an
enabler. The contributions of the ICT policy to
The Market are in three domains, namely:
Money: We want to use ICT to enable more
people to make more money faster. It is our
goal to give every Kenyan the opportunity to
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