An assembly plant located at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Juja, Kiambu County, has rolled out the first batch of 2,000 tablets for school children.
Speaking at the institution on Tuesday, ICT and Innovation principal secretary Victor Kyalo reported that the assembly point is capable of doing about 1,000 units a day.
“Now that we have perfected the art, we can do bigger batches. You should produce 10,000 tablets in the next batch,” Kyalo said.
He said that about 700,000 tablets have been distributed to public primary schools under the Digital Learning Programme (DLP). Kyalo was speaking when he led Nigeria’s communications minister Adebayo Shittu to tour the facility, which employs about 20 techies.
Shittu was impressed by the university's ability to assemble the digital content devices locally, noting it was a challenge they were willing to take up in Nigeria. JKUAT made news in June 2015 made news when it unveiled locally assembled laptops trading under the brand name ‘Taifa’.
All public primary schools in Kenya are expected to have received the devices by December this year.