88% of children in Kenya are interested in Information Technology, report
A global Kaspersky survey covering distance education issues has revealed parents’ and children’s attitudes towards Information Technology (IT) jobs
According to the survey, 88% of young respondents in Kenya find the IT area interesting. Moreover, 86% of them would like to work in the IT space in the future. Less than a quarter (12%) didn’t think about this direction at all and just 2% don’t want to work in this domain.
Internships in IT area are also attractive to teenagers from different regions of Kenya. According to the data, 50% have been interested in undertaking internships for upper school students but they did not get on this. Also, 13% mentioned they are not interested in this because they don’t know where to find appropriate information - while 38% of young respondents were able to reach real trainee programs in IT companies.
The parents, who participated in the survey, are also interested in IT future prospects for their kids. The majority of them (92%) want their children to receive a technical education: graduate from a technical university or a college. Nearly eight in ten of respondents from Kenya (76%) mentioned that their child attends technical courses or online classes, such as programming, robotics while 17% of adults are just considering such lessons for their children.
“There is a well-known global tendency for increasing interest to the jobs in IT area and META hasn’t become an exception. Both parents and children realise a high potential in technological domain that we can already notice even in daily life. However, the results of the survey also showed that children sometimes just cannot find the necessary information that may help them to get an internship and try their hand at real projects. This is a direction we should work on,” said Ara Arakelian, HR Manager for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Kaspersky.