A digital hub has been launched in Kitutu Masaba Constituency to assist youths and constituency residents tap into readily installed infrastructure and internet connections to access online platforms where they can search for online jobs and business opportunities.
Dagorreti North Member of Parliament (MP) Beatrice Elachi, while opening the innovation hub in Kitutu Masaba Technical Training Institute (TTI), observed that the youthful population in Kenya is decrying joblessness and a lack of entrepreneurial opportunities, but the innovation hub will be a game changer in tackling joblessness.
“One of the President’s key six pillars in his Bottom-Up Economic Transformative Agenda (BETA) is the digital super highway and creative economy to boost the ability of the youth and interested entrepreneurs to seek employment online to work and earn from the comfort of the constituency hubs, which have been availed of for free,” MP Elachi stated.
She said that office jobs are no longer attractive because they are very competitive and logistically inflexible when the world is transforming into work environments that provide the opportunity to work online from the comfort of wherever they are. She urged youths to diversify their job search links and try millions of available opportunities online.
Kitutu Masaba MP Clive Gisairo said the computers were issued by the president to give youths in the constituency opportunities for ease of study and networking while at the same time availing themselves of unlimited access to job and business opportunities online so that one does not have to fly out of the country to seek employment.
“The job seeking strategies are shifting from the delivery of hardcopies of your qualifications physically to prospective employers to applying for the same opportunities online, and some assignments require one to have a laptop and internet connection, and they are good to execute their duties. Youths therefore need to equip themselves with the necessary computer skills to be able to sustain their livelihood without having to decry joblessness and beg for handouts,” the legislature advised.
Kitutu Masaba TTI received a complete set of 100 computers, which will be connected to the internet with the help of Nyamira County Information Communication and Technology Authority (ICTA) officers, so that youths from the constituency will benefit from them.
Mr. Peter Nyaribo, Principal of Kitutu Masaba TTI, thanked the area MP for his efforts to enable youths in the institution to be connected with the world and promised to provide an enabling training environment for ICT skills so that no youth is left behind.
“We welcome all the youths and interested residents to make use of this digital innovation hub and gain relevant skills to enable them to have knowledge on how to search for jobs and business opportunities online, be self-reliant, economically secure and stable, and boost the country’s economy,” Mr. Nyaribo said.
The project of installing innovation hubs in all constituencies countrywide is key to providing safe working spaces for youths to enhance their awareness and uptake of online platforms for employment and business opportunities and supporting their innovative ideas at the centres.
By Deborah Bochere
