National Bank of Kenya (NBK) and Kodris Africa have partnered to roll out a payment platform for the recently launched programme for teaching coding in Kenyan primary and secondary schools. The partnership allows Kodris Africa’s [c]
SATO, an award-winning social business tackling the global sanitation and hygiene challenge, is upgrading toilets in 24 schools across the country over the next one year, to provide a clean, fresh and safe learning environment [c]
LG Electronics in partnership with Habitat for Humanity (HFH) have unveiled CSR initiatives in Laikipia county set to benefit over 25,000 residents of Mbombo and Rumuruti regions. Valued at Kshs 10.3 million, the initiatives include [c]
The Kenya government is stepping up its drive to ensure more Kenyans are connected to the internet as part of a broader policy to deliver better public services. In order to do so, the ICT [c]
The Ministries of ICT and Education, ICT Authority, Huawei and UNESCO have launched the DigiSchool Connectivity Project as part of a new nationwide Schoolnet project that seeks to connect all schools in Kenya to the [c]
UNICEF and African e-commerce platform Jumia have announced a partnership in support of Giga’s work to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. Jumia’s data science capacity [c]
Pupils from schools in rural areas emerged tops in an essay writing contest where over 23,000 pupils from 11,300 public primary schools across the 47 counties participated. Mwongeli Mulwa from Makueni, Denise Nguhi (Machakos), Mitchele [c]
Over 600 students including 225 children with hearing impairments are now using new school facilities donated by LG Electronics in support of equal learning opportunities in Kenya. The facilities include a new library, ablution wing [c]
Nokia has come together with multiple stakeholders – including Safaricom, UNICEF and Kenya’s Ministries of Education and ICT – to connect close to 90 schools to the internet in Kenya. Both rural and disadvantaged urban [c]
Five schools and two health centres In Wajir County have received support from Safaricom Foundation for infrastructure and equipment that will benefit up to 1, 500 people. Ademasajida Health Centre received a full haemogram machine [c]
Over 1,000 learners in Turkana County have benefitted from classrooms, books, desks and chairs donated by Safaricom Foundation. Among the schools are Katiko Primary School which got 5 new classrooms and Jeriman Lokitaung which received [c]
Liquid Telecom has successfully connected 152 schools to website domains as part of a broader effort to enhance schools abilities to deliver online learning and services across the country in partnership with Kenya Network Information [c]
Ericsson and UNICEF have announced a global partnership to help map school connectivity in 35 countries by the end of 2023. Mapping the internet connectivity landscape for schools and their surrounding communities is a critical [c]
Fewer than 10% of countries have laws that help ensure full inclusion in education, according to UNESCO’s 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report: Inclusion and education – All means all. The report provides an in-depth analysis of [c]
Airtel Kenya has responded to the government’s directive to close schools to avoid the spread of Coronavirus in the country by partnering with Longhorn Publishers to offer free internet access on its network to enable [c]
The Russian developer of office software My Office and Cameroon’s Ministry of Education have entered a deal to provide and introduce 1 million software licenses of My Office Education in schools and pre-school facilities of [c]
Atlancis Technologies has moved to accelerate the digitisation of Kenya’s private primary schools by providing them with free tranches of the iLearn e-learning content being rolled out by KICD into more than 20,000 state primary [c]
Airtel’s Internet for Schools program continues to harness the strength of the company’s technology to drive change in the community by giving more and more students the freedom to connect to the world of information, [c]
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has completed the installation of broadband connectivity in 896 public secondary schools spread across 47 counties in Kenya. With the completion of this phase one project, these schools will [c]
Kenya and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have signed a deal that will accelerate digital learning in Kenya. The agreement on Cooperation in the Implementation of Digital Literacy in Kenya signed [c]
Tigo has since last year donated more than 2,400 desks worth over Tshs 230 million (about US$ 105,000) to needy primary schools in Tanzania in a sustainable exercise that is meant to alleviate the serious [c]
Airtel Kenya has launched it’s Free Internet for Schools Programme in Kisii County by connecting 20 schools to the internet for free. Speaking at Kenyoro Mixed Secondary School in Kisii County where he launched the [c]
Kenya’s ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has lauded Airtel for its commitment to support e-learning in Schools by providing free internet connection to schools in Kenya through the company’s Free Internet for Schools Program. The Information [c]
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