Our four-month digital skills project targets five primary schools in rural parts of western Kenya by facilitating learners with competitive computing skills like coding, blogging, video editing, typing, spreadsheets, etc. Since digital skills are not taught to primary schools, we'll enable learners from rural parts of western Kenya to be exposed to computing skills thus nurturing their digital prowess at an early age which will contribute to digital equality in rural areas among children.
The digital inequality within the rural areas of western parts of Kenya is the problem that my project aims to address by equipping school children with competent computing skills they can use to navigate the digital world. The digital inequality within the western parts of rural Kenya is based on the fact that schools in that area as much as they do offer free primary education, they do not include computing skills as part of the curriculum.
My project will solve the problem of digital inequality in rural parts of western Kenya by offering competent computing skills like spreadsheet management, coding, blogging, video editing and typing to school children who would have never had this opportunity in four selected schools over a period of four months.
This project will potentially place 800 school children at a better chance to grab digital opportunities like in employment at an equal level when compared to children who come from privileged backgrounds in cities and across the world once they hit the working-age (18 years ). This will thus have reduced inequality that is experienced in digital platforms that mainly disadvantages people who never had the chance to learn about computing skills.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
