Ministry’s Strategic Issues and Priorities
country. The Root Certificate Authorities to facilitate the use of digital certificates will be set up;
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Develop a national addressing system project to identify streets, buildings, plots and other infrastructure and allocating them a street address;
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Build capacity for the Kenya Computer Incidence Response Team and Coordination Centre (KE-CIRT/
CC) to coordinate computer related incidences in the country; and
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Roll out of the digital TV infrastructure in all the remaining counties (from 60 per cent coverage to
100 per cent) to move from analogue to digital TV broadcasting migration.
5.2.3.3 Enhance service delivery through e-Government services
The ministry will implement the following strategies in order to improve service delivery through leveraging on
ICTs:
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Roll out Digital Government Initiative Phase I;
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Support food security through development of a digital land management system, GIS, mapping
of farm productivity, forecasting, digital meteorological systems, and market information systems,
e-farming, farm produce management systems, agricultural information systems, remote sensing,
population management systems and health and nutrition information systems;
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Initiate e-government systems to complete development of National Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (NIMES), e-Promis, National Integrated Education Information Management System
(NIEIMS), National Integrated Land Management Information System (NILMIS), performance contracting online tracking system, Government shared services, Government Data Centre, Community
Learning Information Centres, IFMIS, revenue collection system (CIFMIS), Interactive Voice Response
System and Government unified messaging system;
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Enhance the Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI) portal and ensure that relevant organisations and
ministries upload current and consistent information in a timely manner; and
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Integrate ICT in education to familiarise young Kenyans with ICT as a learning tool. Digitise primary
school content and offer technical support to the primary school laptop’s programme.
5.2.3.4 Build capacity within the ICT sector
The ministry plans to increase the ICT talent pool through implementing the following strategies:
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Set up of county ICT incubation hubs to empower the youths with the necessary training and work
experience to develop market-ready ICT services and products ito meet the needs of the industry and
government;
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Set up national ICT centres of excellence in order to develop a critical mass of human resource required to support capacity for the industry;
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Create a Government wide ICT training and certification programme outsourced to the private sector;
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Develop ICT human resource in the Government to enhance ICT knowledge and skills;
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Create data bank of ICT skills for the economy;
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Facilitate the roll out of mandatory ICT training in all teacher training colleges and TVET in collaboration with Ministry of Education;
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Facilitate the development of ICT curricula that align skills with industry demands and global standards in collaboration with Institutions of learning; and
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Modernise training infrastructure at Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.
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