Despite laptop failure, Jubilee dreams digital dream fizzled before realisation stuck in state bureacracy

Class One pupils from Getembe Primary School in Kisii follow instructions from their teacher in a pilot programme with the tablets in 2016. [File, Standard]

In the months leading to the 2013 General Elections, the Jubilee coalition duo President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto put up a spirited promise to digitize teaching and learning in Kenyan schools.

The pledge rode on their digital slogan that was the campaign jingle in the run up to the elections.