Rare Earths: Develop a strategic Kenyan silicon fabrication capability to leverage the mining of rare earths found in Kenya Buy Kenya, Build Kenya: Government will preferentially and exclusively buy Kenyan produced devices, software and solutions. Engineering: Encourage the Kenyan development of technology solutions to Kenyan problems Scale: Build Kenyan industry and ICT sector scale to rival the best and largest in the world. Devices The achievement of government’s aims with regard to universal broadband access carries with it the implication of universal access to individual devices. Kenyans and Africans will regularly buy millions of devices. Kenyan owned companies should make these devices in Kenya. To achieve this, this policy mandates that: Strategic Designation: The development of silicon fabrication capabilities, device manufacture and machine intelligence are hereby designated as national strategic imperatives. Advisory: The government particularly the Ministry of ICT will provide or arrange for the provision of consulting, technical advice and mentoring to universities, state owned corporations, private companies and individual entrepreneurs in pursuit of national strategic imperatives. It is the governments aim to make corporations in this domain successful. Technology Acquisition: Relevant government agencies are mandated to provide assistance in negotiating technology acquisition agreements with foreign companies or entities Knowledge Diffusion Framework: The government in wide consultation with the private sector and academia will create a knowledge diffusion framework wherein the conditions for university-industrygovernment-military collaboration will be enhanced, providing for the rapid diffusion of new technologies to a wide variety of sectors. Upgrading Human Capacity: The government will provide competitively selected universities and technical institutions with take-off grants to procure silicon fabrication, micro-electronic, microelectromechanical and nano-technology equipment. Content and Applications: Ministry of ICT, Kenya This policy intends to promote the development of high quality, easily accessible, relevant local digital content. The stature and relevance of a country, in these highly networked times, is conditioned upon the size and relevance of it’s internet footprint. It is our purpose to increase the total amount of locally produced Kenyan content hosted in Kenya available on the Internet, and to make Kenya the destination for African content. It is critical, that globally, we tell our story ourselves. This policy mandates : Local Development: Support locally based development of ICT applications and multimedia content; Use of Kenyan Languages: The Government shall encourage the use of Kiswahili as the national language and local languages in developing content, and leverage on Kenyans’ good knowledge of English to develop content for the international community; Cultural Preservation: Encourage the development of content that captures and preserves knowledge and culture of Kenya’s diverse communities; Removal of Barriers: The Government shall work to remove barriers to local content creation and distribution such as exorbitant classification fees and broadcasting fees; Promotion of Electronic Media: The Government shall promote collection, preservation, digitisation, distribution and publishing of historical community materials; Information as a National Heritage: The Government shall encourage the development and management of information and knowledge resources as a national heritage. Local Content: It is the objective of this policy to promote the production of local digital content and create employment for citizens. To this end, the government will: Digitisation: All government Ministries, Departments and Agencies are required to move to all digital systems of communication, document generation, document storage and archiving. This policy mandates that all MDAs will digitise all their historical records and make the same available to the National Archives in an acceptable electronic format. Open Data: All historical and archival data in government possession will be available online to Kenyans. This data can be a rich 22/37 November-2019