Do you know how much a standard 1 kid uses interms of textbooks....How many even afford the textbooks?

Imagine a scenario where an isiolo kid...who has never owned a textbook has been issued with a laptop worth 8k( I hear thats what the Rwandan govt spends) preloaded with Ebook and Audiobooks. Well I think that would create some kind of equity as opposed to paying teachers and building classrooms...the project will touch the kid directly.Teachers on the other hand dont like working in hardship areas so even if you pay them well most of them will stick to the cities and towns.

On the issue of Konza The govt is creating an economic zone where investors will have a peace of mind...maybe the timing or the execution is wrong but the idea is fantastic.

Imagine you want to start assembling a cash dispenser and you need assembly line,staff quarters and an easy access to the port of Mombasa dont you think Konza would offers the space and the access to carry out the project unlike other towns.

On the std 1 laptops, this will become the single most important gesture by Govt to reduce unemployment.

By letting all kenyan kids get to understand computers,majority of these kids will start competing with the best all ove rthe world.
In China, a std 4 kid can create a solar cell or a microchip. In Kenya, a university trained electrical engineer cant create such.
With computer knowledge, the kids in Samburu, Turkana, Lamu , Migingo etc will now be able to compete on an equal platform with other kids in private schools and international level.
Once these kids get to std 8, they can still increase their knowledge acquisition without lecturers.

By the time i graduated from UoN with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2001, computers were rare and beginning to creep into Nairobi.
At graduation, i knew less than the average fundi on the hands on approach in construction due to poor university teaching techniques. With use of the internet, not lecturers, i was able to teach myself more, get international work experience in Botswana, Rwanda, South Sudan, Zimbabwe etc.
All these opportunities couldn't have come to me without the power of the computer.