Digital economy blueprint

Figure 1: Growth of mobile banking  in Kenya in various sectors of the economy

With a well-functioning digital economy, Kenya can 

achieve economic growth, reduce poverty and ensure 

all her citizens have the basic needs (food, clothing 

and shelter). A digital economy will offer new job op-

portunities for the youth, growth of Micro, Small and 

Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and for the majority of 

the Kenyans who are farmers, the digitisation of the 

agricultural sector offers new opportunities through 

innovations that upscale the agricultural value chain. 

Trade platforms that bring farmers closer to the trad-

ers by reducing the number of middlemen between 

farm and plate. Another benefit to be garnered from a 

digital economy is precision agriculture.

Today, fast-evolving technologies have the potential 

to transform the traditional way of doing things across 

all functions and domains of government as well as 

the ways in which ICTs offer governments an unprec-

edented opportunity to achieve sustainable develop-

ment and improve the well-being of their citizens.