Through a partnership with Kenya Education Network (KENET) and the Country Government of Nairobi, over 150 schools have been connected to fixed high speed internet in a piloting that began April 2014.

The first three months were used to roll out the fibre network and the last one year was used to evaluate the progress of the project. The scheme will let pupils conduct viable research and access broad knowledge from different parts of the world.  The majority of the schools connected will be private ones.

Wananchi Groupis installing free, unlimited, high-speed fixed internet to over 2,000 schools in Nairobi (Image source: http://techmoran.com/)

Wananchi Group has invested USD 2 million to provide these schools with access to the internet. The project will supplement the government initiative to provide free laptops to schools across the country. The Zuku Fibre project is a private-public partnership using the Wananchi Group’s fibre infrastructure to provide ICT services to 2,715 schools in Nairobi, in line with the objectives of Vision 2030.

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