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President Uhuru Kenyatta, with Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali, tours an exhibition stand at the Transform Africa Summit in Kigali, on May 15, 2019. PHOTO | PPU
President Uhuru Kenyatta launched Kenya’s Digital Economy Blueprint on Tuesday as the second Transform Africa Summit held in Kigali, Rwanda, picked up.
According to President Kenyatta, this would serve as an important guide for powering Kenya’s economic transformation by technology.
“It is intended as a framework to guide us as we accelerate the adoption of digital technologies. I hope all countries will find value in contextualising this framework to their specific ecosystems so as to realise the full potential of our digital transformation,” President Kenyatta said.
“In Kenya, the number of active Internet and data subscriptions stood at 42.2 million in 2018, broadband covers more than 45 per cent of the total population and virtually the entire country is linked to the national optic fibre,” he added.
This move is significant for Africa, considering that Kenya was last month appointed to develop a blueprint for a digital economy on the continent by the Smart Africa Initiative, a continental body in charge of advancing a single digital market in Africa.
By launching its own blueprint, the first on the continent, Kenya indicated its potential to meet the objective of being a pacesetter for African countries that are embarking on this digital transformation journey.
Kenya sets pace with launch of blueprint for digital economy
The country was last month tasked with developing a blueprint for digital economy.
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