Konza digital city construction to cost Ksh 20B, create 50,000 jobs

The planned Konza media digital city will cost twenty billion shillings to construct and generate about 50,000 jobs when complete. The digital city to be constructed inside the Konza Technopolis aims to position Kenya as the digital hub for Africa. ICT secretary Joe Mucheru says the funding of the city will be done through a mixture of debt and equity under a private-public partnership model. A feasibility study undertaken by Dohwa engineering company of South Korea has okayed the project terming it an economically viable digital city.