Mutai Kelvin on Technology
Innovative applications of new digital technology present opportunities for social and human services to reach more people with greater impact on our most vexing social problems. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is arguably the most powerful tool for social and economic change. Rapid and continuing growth and development in ICT is transforming the ways in which we live and work.
Technology has improved education and learning process. We need well and organized educational infrastructures so we can learn how to interpret information. Our schools should integrate educational technologies in their system with a great aim of improving the way students learn.
Technologies like smart whiteboards, computers, tablets, projectors, and internet are being used in classrooms to boost students moral to learn. Visual education is becoming more popular and it has proved to be the best method of learning in many subjects like mathematics, physics, biology, geography, economics and much more.
Knowledge in IT & ICT now encompass a broad number of areas from business consulting, development and sales to technical roles. In addition, IT & ICT professionals work in a variety of sectors including finance, property and business services, as well as the primary IT & ICT sectors.
Using internet for example, youths can get access to both domestic and international education and job opportunities online. Due to lack of access to information and communication technology especially in rural areas, youths cannot exploit their career, business and education opportunities.
We need an Innovation hub and hacker space for the technology community in our constituency. This space will be a nexus for technologists, investors, young entrepreneurs, designers, researchers and programmers.
The innovation hub will provide a space where residents can be taught, receive mentorship, business support services, access to startup and product development related workshops and events, and the possibility of venture funding through connections with the local venture capital community.
These new technologies will help speed up the development of effective programs, and bring a wider array of help to more individuals and our society.