Airtel, Unicef partner in digital learning project

Airtel Kenya Vice President Emeka Oparah with UNICEF Senior Advisor Public-private partnership Jelena Jovanovic and ICT manager Keith Chibafa listen to grade 6 pupil Courtney Kendall at Ngei Primary school during the launch of a partnership to scale-up digital learning. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Multinational telcoms operator Airtel and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) have joined forces to roll out an Africa-wide digital learning initiative targetting 30 primary schools.

Airtel Kenya Managing Director, Ashish Malhotra, said the fiver-year programme is structured to offer the targeted schools at least 300 Gigabytes (GB) of data, with up to 50Mbps in speed every month, to meet their education and research needs.