2.1 Kenya’s Development
Vision 2030
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OVERVIEW OF
ICT CONTEXT IN KENYA
The Vision 2030 is the national long-term development blue-print that
aims to transform the country into a modern, globally competitive,
middle income country offering a high quality of life for all citizens by
the year 2030. The Vision is being implemented through a succession
of five year Medium Term Plans (MTPs). The first MTP (2008-2012)
implemented the first five years of the Vision. The Vision comprises of
three key Pillars: Economic, Social, and Political. The economic pillar
aims to achieve an average economic growth rate of 10 per cent per
annum and sustaining the same until 2030. The social pillar seeks to
engender just, cohesive and equitable social development in a clean
and secure environment, while the political pillar aims to realize an
issue-based, people-centered, result-oriented and accountable democratic system.
The theme of the second MTP, (2013-2017) which coincides with the
coming into power of a new Government after the 2013 elections, is
“Transforming Kenya: Pathway to Devolution, Socio-Economic Development, Equity and National Unity”. The MTP gives priority to devolution as spelt out in the Kenya 2010 constitution and to more rapid socio-economic development with equity as a tool for building national
unity. The Second MTP also aims to build on the successes of the first
MTP, particularly in increasing the scale and pace of economic transformation through infrastructure development, and strategic emphasis on priority sectors under the economic and social pillars of Vision
2030.
‘The MTP gives
priority to
devolution’
ICT is one of the foundations for economic development in the second
MTP of Vision 2030, with the theme, “strengthening the foundation for
a knowledge economy”. ICT is a critical tool in Kenya’s vision of knowledge based economy, which aims at shifting the current industrial development path towards innovation where creation, adoption, adaptation and use of knowledge as the key source of economic growth are
key. As a foundation of the second MTP, ICT would be concerned with:
a) upgrading the national ICT infrastructure;
b) improving public service delivery;
c) developing the ICT industry; and
d) upgrading ICT capacity.
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