Margaret “Meg” Whitman, the US Ambassador to Kenya can be a keynote speaker on the three-day digital discussion board organised by the Nation Media Group on February 22 -24, 2023 in Mombasa. PHOTO | JOAN PERERUAN | NMG

ICT Cupboard Secretary Eliud Owalo and US ambassador to Kenya Margaret Whitman will grace a three-day digital discussion board organised by the Nation Media Group that seeks to deepen the usage of expertise by the non-public sector and authorities entities.

Dubbed, Enhancing Africa’s Digital Transformation, the occasion, on February 22 to 24, will see main figures within the digital house enlighten companies and the general public sector on the essential position of expertise amid the disruptions which have led to a shift in how corporates and authorities entities function.

Ms Whitman has huge expertise within the digital house, on condition that she beforehand served as CEO of tech giants eBay and Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Mr Owalo is tasked with main the federal government’s bid to shift some 5,000 companies on-line.

Rising wants

The discussion board, the third to be organised by the Nation Media Group, comes at a time when digitising operations has turn into priceless for any agency eager to stay in enterprise and thrive within the present difficult atmosphere.

“The occasion will assemble assorted stakeholders and revered authorities within the digital world to current and talk about concepts, improvements, discoveries and views referring to the prevailing and rising wants of an more and more digitised world,” Nation Media Group Chief Govt Officer Stephen Gitagama mentioned.

The important thing areas of focus embody the position of digital shifts within the growth of companies whereas beefing up the methods to maintain them protected from cyber-attacks.

The discussion board to be held on the Sarova Whitesands Resort from Wednesday to Friday subsequent week will even supply delegates a possibility to deepen their data of the essential position of making certain strong digital methods which have the required capability to soak up the ever-changing traits and challenges on the office.

Studying alternative

Delegates are set to faucet into Ms Whitman’s huge expertise on how she led international giants within the digital shift, serving to place them at vantage factors to develop their companies whereas embracing expertise.

Ms Whitman took over at HP in 2011 and is credited with steering the agency from a time when shares had been at a six-year low and serving to it embrace the digital shift, highlighting the immense studying alternative for delegates who will attend the discussion board.

The discussion board comes at a time of heightened give attention to the digitisation of methods within the non-public sector and authorities entities to embrace international traits.

Specialists reckon that adopting superior applied sciences such because the Web of Issues, Large Knowledge, Machine Studying, and Enterprise Useful resource Planning (ERPS) instruments is now not an choice, with people who fail to take action going through uncertainty forward.

Buyer information is a key pillar of digital transformation, offering the pool of data the place corporations can glean deep insights into their consumers’ preferences and behaviours, bringing to the fore the significance of safe digital methods.

Digital shift

The fact of the digital shift grew to become extra pronounced within the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus in 2020, which opened a brand new daybreak of the distant office, disrupting companies and authorities entities that needed to make investments extra in expertise.

However whereas many companies have made progress in integrating expertise into their operations, some are but to get their footing proper within the digital world, at the same time as the federal government plans an bold shift to supply companies on-line.

The brand new administration plans to digitise all 5,000 companies by the tip of this 12 months in a shift that every one companies looking for to do enterprise with the federal government will inevitably embrace.

Plans to roll out 100,000km of a digital freeway within the type of fibre optic cables to allow web entry in each a part of the nation are at a sophisticated stage.

The freeway is anticipated to serve 29,000 faculties, 26,000 markets and eight.5 million properties with entry to electrical energy highlighting why the non-public sector eager to bang contracts with the federal government should embrace the digital shift before later.