The Kenyan education minister Mutula Kilonzo is mulling an education bond to help finance
integration of ICT use in learning institutions to build adequate human capital
for the industry. Speaking in Naivasha during a workshop on mainstreaming of
ICT integration in education, Mutula said that one of the two education policy
documents approved by the cabinet last week called for ICT training from early
stages of education to improve future manpower.
"We
raise bonds for infrastructure and I am also thinking that we can also have in
place education bonds for building our human capital. If we are able to come up
with a manageable education bond, we can finance some of these plans in the
proposed education policy," noted Mutula. Technology firms Microsoft and
Intel have joined efforts by the education ministry to work on the project.