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UNESCO’s Internet Universality indicators in Kenya
Status: Completed
Launching Year: 2019
Completion Year: 2020
Report published on: 16 October 2020
A 2019 study established that most non-Internet users (84%) were based in the rural areas, and a majority (58%) were female. The National ICT survey indicated that the access to ICT equipment differed between women and men, with men having a higher proportion of their population having access to ICTs compared to the women. For men, 60.8% had access to mobile phones while 58.9% of women had access to mobile phones, a difference of 1.8 percentage points. The access to computers and to the Internet for both males and females in 2010 was each below 10% of the sampled population for each gender, with men having a marginally higher number compared to the women. Source: 398 Ndung’u, M.N., Lewis, C., & Mothobi, O. (2019). After access: The state of ICT in Kenya. Policy Paper No. 9, Series 5. Research ICT Africa
Partners and funding
- Funding: SIDA
- Author(s): The team of researchers include: Rights: Victor Kapiyo and Angela Minayo Accessibility: Mwendwa Kivuva and Elizabeth Orembo Openness: Grace Mutung’u and Tevin Mwenda Multistakeholderism: Grace Githaiga and Mwara Gichanga X-Cross Cutting Issues: Dr. Wambui Wamunyu and Cecilia Maundu
- National Partner(s): Kenya ICT Action Network (KictaNet)
- Focal point: John Okande, National Programme Officer, UNESCO Office in Nairobi