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Saturday, March 16, 2024 –Three Western countries have agreed to start supplying Kenya with digital online jobs as part of an agreement to foster digital economy.
President William Ruto, on Saturday, March 16, made the revelations saying, online jobs remain his main agenda to help fight joblessness.
Ruto, while addressing in Bomet County on Saturday March 16, listed three countries – United States, Germany and France – as being key in implementing andsuppprting his digital growth agenda among the youths.
“I have already negotiated with America, Germany and France and they have agreed to give our youths jobs on the internet, or the digital jobs,” he noted.
He reaffirmed his commitment to push through the plan to built ICT hubs in every part of the country to make this a reality.
“In affordable housing, we have jobs, and similarly in the ICT hubs we have jobs. I will set up computers, bring teachers and provide internet so that everyone can click the computer and earn money,” Ruto stated.
Early this year, President Ruto expressed his amazement at a student who was earning a living by fully working from home on the government’s Jitume ICT Laboratories.
Dr. Ruto, during his visit to Mosop, Nandi County on January 16, engaged with Brian Kipchumba, a student pursuing a diploma in ICT but also working online.
The student explained that he pockets around sh 40,000 after tax deductions, money which he uses to cater for his daily expenses.