West Pokot County Government, in partnership with the national government, Raspberry Pi Foundation, and Frontier County Development Council (FCDC), has launched the digital literacy programme in primary schools.
The initiative aims at training ICT teachers for grades four to nine from 12 selected primary schools within the county to ensure learners acquire literacy in the digital world in the advent of new technologies.
Speaking during the launch, Idle Faarah, the Chief Executive Officer, FCDC said that the council has already piloted the programme in other counties within the FCDC and has finally rolled out in West Pokot.
FCDC is a consortium that brings 10 Northern Kenya county governments together, including West Pokot, to assist in the socio-economic growth and empowerment of the frontier of arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya in development, as well as peace and cohesion.
