Kenya Launches National ICT Master Plan

As part of the implementation of Vision 2030, the National ICT Masterplan for Kenya provides a five year plan focused on social and economic pillars in seven key areas.

The keys areas agreed under the economic pillar include Tourism, agriculture, Wholesale and Retail Trade, Manufacturing, Business process outsourcing and financial services and the creative industry.

Key areas agreed under the social pillar include Education and Training, Health sector, Water and sanitation, Environment, housing and Urbanization, Gender, Youth and Vulnerable groups, Social Equity and poverty reduction.

This five-year plan seeks to drive citizen adoption of the Vision 2030 priorities through ICT policies and initiatives and it projects that by 2017 Kenya's ICT industry will be contributing an estimated US$2 billion (some 25 percent of Kenya's GDP) and have created around 500 new tier-1 ICT companies and over 50,000 jobs.

This Masterplan was compiled by a team incorporating representatives from the Ministry of Information and Communications, National Communications Secretariat, Directorate of eGovernment, Kenya IT and Outsourcing Society and Kenya ICT Board. Initial stakeholder consultation was undertaken in October 2012.

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