Africa-Press – Kenya. The government is set to roll out the locally assembled cheap smartphones in August, ICT CS Eliud Owalo has said. The government is set to roll out the locally assembled cheap smartphones in August, ICT CS Eliud Owalo has said.
Owalo while reiterating the government’s plans of leveraging technology to make it efficient and effective noted that this will scale up the uptake of the digital infrastructure installed by the government.
He said it is their preposition based on the feasibility studies that have been undertaken that the phones be rolled out in the market at a unit cost of Sh5627 (40 Dollars).
Speaking during the launch of a digital laboratory at Maseno School in Kisumu, the CS noted that the device will scale up consumption of online government services and online work.
“We are going to roll out our first batch of locally assembled and affordable smartphones in the Kenyan Market to ensure that many Kenyans make use of the digital infrastructure installed by the government,” he told the media.
The CS further noted that the device is integral because the country has a digital infrastructure and people with digital skills. He said they are keen to facilitate affordable telephone handsets to enable the youths and members of the public to be able to consume the virtual government services from the comfort of wherever they are.
The CS said the government is doing this in partnership with private donors to ensure it enhances the uptake of the services at the same time offers job opportunities to many people across the board.
“The government has opened talks with the global digital technology giants to link them with kenyan youths for opportunities to work online.”
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