Kenya: Treasury Has Noble Intentions On ICT Spending, but Execution Could Be a Nightmare

opinion

Looking at the key budget lines for the ICT ministry reveals that ICT as a driver or an enabler of government services still has some long way to go before achieving its optimal impact.

Whereas the usual suspects - Digital Literacy Program (Laptop Project) and Konza Technocity - got their huge amounts of Sh11.9 billion and Sh8.3 billion, respectively, very little in the ICT budget speaks to the softer agenda of ICT as an enabler.

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