NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 28 — President William Ruto has reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to making education and technology the central pillars of Kenya’s transformation. The President said the country’s future prosperity depends on producing globally competitive talent capable of driving the digital economy. Speaking at State House, Nairobi, during a ceremony to honour Kenyan winners of the 2026 Global Huawei ICT Competition and launch the 11th edition of the contest, President Ruto said Kenya’s remarkable performance on the global stage demonstrates that the country is steadily emerging as Africa’s technology and innovation hub.
He said the event was more than a celebration of academic excellence, describing it as a powerful affirmation that Kenya is steadily positioning itself to compete and lead in the technologies that will define the future global economy. “The future will not belong merely to those who master today’s technologies. It will belong to those who imagine, invent and build the technologies that the world has not yet conceived,” the President said.
Kenya emerged among the top-performing countries at the 2026 Global Huawei ICT Competition after all three university teams reached the global finals in Shenzhen, China. The country’s biggest achievement came when the Cloud Track Team won the Grand Prize, Kenya’s first since joining the competition in 2019. The Network Track Team secured Second Prize, while an all-women Computing Team from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology earned Second Prize and the prestigious Women in Tech Award.
Other winners are Franklin Mutisya, a lecturer at Machakos University, together with Denzel Nzinga of Multimedia University, Robert Wambua of Kenyatta University and Joy Wairimu of the Co-operative University of Kenya. Their area of expertise is in networking, cyber-security and wireless technologies. President Ruto said the victories demonstrate that Kenyan students possess world-class expertise in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cyber security and other emerging technologies.
“The Huawei winners have shown that Kenyan talent can compete with the best in the world. Our human resource can play in any league and compete with any nation,” he said. He commended PC Kinyanjui Technical Training Institute for becoming the first Kenyan TVET institution to qualify for the regional finals of th…
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