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"content": "Research and Technology on ICT research between June and August, 2013. This team that is overseeing the implementation also met with the Senate Committee on Education, ICT and Research. They had one meeting with the Kenya Primary Head Teachers Association and KNUT on 3rd September, 2013. They had a meeting with all education field officers, namely, DEOs, Quality Assurance Officers and the Standards Officers on 23rd September, 2013. A meeting was held with the Civil Society Organisations, mostly with an organisation called Elimu Yetu Coalition on 25th September, 2013. Response from these stakeholders has been positive and has had very good proposals for the improvement in implementation. On the digitiation of the content, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development has developed a digital content for Class IV to Class VIII in science and mathematics. Digitized content for Classes I to III in seven subjects has already been piloted, ready for pre-loading to the laptops. Finally, on the digitization, vetting of the digital content has been developed and submitted and has been given to publishers to publish it. On the procurement process, a very critical stage, international tender was issued on 2nd August, 2013, for the procurement of 1.3 million laptops for schools, 20,367 projectors and 20,367 printers for all schools in our country. A pre-bidders conference was held at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology headquarters on 16th August, 2013, which was essentially to clarify the issues raised by the bidders. Subsequently, the Ministry clarified critical issues and questions that the bidders raised and some sections of the bid documents through addendance were put in the major media houses on 22nd and 30th August, 2013, respectively. The tender opening date was extended from 3rd September, 2013 to 10th September, 2013. The tender was opened on 10th September, 2013 and during the opening session, it was noted that out of the 126 bids sold, only 20 bids respondend. Technical evaluation has been finalised and the process is now at the tail end waiting the decision of the Ministerial Tender Committee. On the teacher preparation that the Member has asked, the Ministry launched an ICT training curriculum for the teachers on 7th August, 2013. The document identifies key areas in ICT literacy and integration skills that shall facilitate the training of teachers for national roll out of the training process in early October, 2013. The ICT Integration Training Manual and the user guides for use by the trainers have been finalised. This was done in mid September, 2013 and now they are ready for use. The master trainers and the trainers of trainers have been identified to spearhead the national roll out of the training of teachers in every district. This exercise is scheduled to start from 10th October, 2013, at the Kenya Institute of Education. The training venues for teachers across the counties have been mapped out and will be in the TTCs, TTIs and schools with computer labs. Finally, on the infrastructre, the Ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has carried out a need assessment in all primary schools to assess their E-readiness status with a view of facilitating the powering of schoools. About 11,065 are connected to the national grid. The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has advertised a tender on 9th October, 2013 in the media to supply solar power to schools which are totally outside the national grid. It is connecting other schools to electricity through the Rural Electrification Authority. It is planned that about 1,650 schools shall be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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