Rare Earths: Develop a strategic Kenyan
silicon fabrication capability to leverage the
mining of rare earths found in Kenya
Buy Kenya, Build Kenya: Government
will preferentially and exclusively buy Kenyan
produced devices, software and solutions.
Engineering: Encourage the Kenyan
development of technology solutions to Kenyan
problems
Scale: Build Kenyan industry and ICT
sector scale to rival the best and largest in the
world.
Devices
The achievement of government’s aims
with regard to universal broadband access
carries with it the implication of universal
access to individual devices. Kenyans and
Africans will regularly buy millions of devices.
Kenyan owned companies should make these
devices in Kenya. To achieve this, this policy
mandates that:
Strategic Designation: The development
of silicon fabrication capabilities, device
manufacture and machine intelligence are
hereby designated as national strategic
imperatives.
Advisory: The government particularly
the Ministry of ICT will provide or arrange for
the provision of consulting, technical advice
and mentoring to universities, state owned
corporations, private companies and individual
entrepreneurs in pursuit of national strategic
imperatives. It is the governments aim to make
corporations in this domain successful.
Technology
Acquisition:
Relevant
government agencies are mandated to provide
assistance
in
negotiating
technology
acquisition agreements with foreign companies
or entities
Knowledge Diffusion Framework: The
government in wide consultation with the
private sector and academia will create a
knowledge diffusion framework wherein the
conditions for university-industrygovernment-military collaboration will be
enhanced, providing for the rapid diffusion of
new technologies to a wide variety of sectors.
Upgrading Human Capacity: The
government will provide competitively
selected universities and technical institutions
with take-off grants to procure silicon
fabrication,
micro-electronic,
microelectromechanical and nano-technology
equipment.
Content and Applications:
Ministry of ICT, Kenya
This policy intends to promote the
development of high quality, easily accessible,
relevant local digital content. The stature and
relevance of a country, in these highly
networked times, is conditioned upon the size
and relevance of it’s internet footprint. It is our
purpose to increase the total amount of locally
produced Kenyan content hosted in Kenya
available on the Internet, and to make Kenya
the destination for African content. It is critical,
that globally, we tell our story ourselves.
This policy mandates :
Local Development: Support locally
based development of ICT applications and
multimedia content;
Use of Kenyan Languages: The
Government shall encourage the use of
Kiswahili as the national language and local
languages in developing content, and leverage
on Kenyans’ good knowledge of English to
develop content for the international
community;
Cultural Preservation: Encourage the
development of content that captures and
preserves knowledge and culture of Kenya’s
diverse communities;
Removal of Barriers: The Government
shall work to remove barriers to local content
creation and distribution such as exorbitant
classification fees and broadcasting fees;
Promotion of Electronic Media: The
Government
shall
promote
collection,
preservation, digitisation, distribution and
publishing of historical community materials;
Information as a National Heritage: The
Government shall encourage the development
and management of information and
knowledge resources as a national heritage.
Local Content:
It is the objective of this policy to promote the
production of local digital content and create
employment for citizens.
To this end, the government will:
Digitisation: All government Ministries,
Departments and Agencies are required to
move to all digital systems of communication,
document generation, document storage and
archiving. This policy mandates that all MDAs
will digitise all their historical records and
make the same available to the National
Archives in an acceptable electronic format.
Open Data: All historical and archival data
in government possession will be available
online to Kenyans. This data can be a rich
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