At least 150 people in Kisii County have successfully completed a four-week digital skills training under a mobile, solar-powered digital classroom initiative that has seen 9000 students benefit from 36 counties since 2019.
The programme aims at equipping participants with essential digital competencies including basic computer use, internet navigation, digital marketing, online safety, and entrepreneurship among others.
Speaking during the graduation ceremony at Mokubo in Magenche ward, Bomachoge Borabu Constituency in Kisii County, Education Ministry TVET's Secretary Joseph Njau applauded the programme saying it conformed to the government's Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda especially the digital skills' superhighway component, aimed at ensuring the populace has digital knowledge.
Njau who was representing the ministry CS Julius Ogamba, said the ministry had collaborated with the Huawei, computer for schools' organisation and other players to ensure the program reached out to Kenyans in the most remote places of the country to empower them with relevant digital skills and certificates for the global market.
