Konza Technopolis has broken ground for the construction of the first Center of Excellence Digital Innovation Hub at Riruta, Dagoretti South.
While officiating the groundbreaking, ICT and Digital Economy Principal Secretary Eng. John Tanui said the construction of the Jitume Hub heralds the planned construction of 1,450 digital hubs across all the 1,450 wards in the country to enhance digital skilling.
“This groundbreaking signifies the start of the 1,450 digital hubs in all the wards in the country,” ICT Eng. John Tanui said.
“We have been rolling out Jitume Hubs in our Technical and vocational changes and we are glad to see the youths have gained appropriate digital skills enabling them to gain employment or undertake income-generating activities,” he added.
Konza Technopolis CEO Paul Okwiri said the digital hubs being built in the wards are targeting youths outside learning institutions.
“The Center of Excellence Digital Innovation Hub is one of the three sets of Jitume hubs to be built,” said Okwiri.
Under Jitume, the government has built 290 hubs and trained over 400,000 youths.
“Each constituency will build a model Center of Excellence Hub which will be equipped with 100 devices, a standard digital hub to have 50 desktop computers and a normal digital hub with 30 desktops and they will be open to the public to allow them to obtain digital skills,” Dagoretti South Member of Parliament and National Assembly’s Committee of Information Technology and Innovation Chair John Kiarie said.
The NG-CDF Committee enhanced the allocation for Digital Hubs to sh.100 million further boosting the planned construction of the hubs.
“We have allocated more resources to the constituencies CDF to ensure they complete the Jitume Digital Hub within this financial year,” Musa Sirma, the National Assembly Select Committee on NG-CDF Chairperson and MP for Eldama Ravine said.