The Elimu TSO Programme builds, hosts and maintains a complete official website for a school — its identity, academics, news and admissions — and keeps it running. No school needs a developer, a server, or a line of code.
The idea began with a simple gap. A modern school competes, communicates and records itself online — yet the vast majority of Kenyan schools have no web presence at all. Parents cannot find them. Alumni cannot reach them. Their achievements live only on paper.
At the KEPSHA national conference, hundreds of schools signed the TSO commitment. Their intent is real and their headteachers are named. The one barrier that remains is cost — which is why the first cohort is being underwritten by sponsors and community giving rather than charged to the schools.
Project 1-A is the first 100 of those schools: a single, fundable, national cohort spanning every region of Kenya — with the full pipeline now past 360 schools.
Homepage, academics, news, contact and admissions — professionally built on the standard TSO template, hosted and maintained for a year.
Each school takes its place on Kenya's own national domain — a permanent, credible, sovereign address of its own.
Delivered through a trained network of young digital agents, so the programme builds local skills as it builds the sites. See how it skills & employs youth →
After the funded year, each site is carried forward as a living academic hub — so a sponsored school stays online. See how it becomes an academic powerhouse →
When a Kenyan institution lives on a foreign domain, its digital identity — and the data and trust that come with it — sits somewhere else. The .KE domain, administered by KeNIC, keeps that identity at home: Kenyan-registered, Kenyan-governed, and part of the national digital fabric the country is actively building.
The TSO Programme is deliberately aligned with Kenya's digital ambitions — a connected, digitally sovereign nation where public institutions have a credible online presence of their own. Putting 100 schools on .KE is a small, concrete instalment on that larger goal, and a direct contribution to the national push to grow Kenya's domain footprint.
Delivered in step with KeNIC, the national .KE registry — which is itself championing the first cohort of schools.
Each school moves through the same clear journey, delivered locally by a young digital agent.
A school commits to the programme and is placed on the national register.
A champion or sponsor backs the school — or it is funded through the cohort.
A youth agent builds the site, gathers its content, and trains the school's staff.
The school goes live on its own .KE domain — and begins growing as an academic hub.