President William Ruto on Tuesday, January 31, chaired a paperless cabinet, the first of its kind since the country's independence.
Photos seen by Kenyans.co.ke captured Cabinet Secretaries familiarizing themselves with digital gadgets with no papers on tables that are usually loaded with files.
The Ruto-led government has been at the forefront of digitising its operations, a pledge that he made during the campaigns and recently during the cabinet retreat in Nanyuki.
This will be the first time the government implements a paperless approach from the cabinet with the intention to have it cascaded all the way to lower cadres.
On January, 6 Ruto revealed that during his cabinet meetings going forward, business would be transacted digitally.
“We are going to run our cabinet on the basis of the digital space,” he disclosed during the second day of the cabinet retreat at the Fairmount Mount Kenya Safari.
He in addition noted that the paperless system would be replicated in all government departments with time.
"It will be expected of government in every department that we leverage on technology to make government much more efficient," he stated.
According to Ruto, sending a letter took longer than an email.
"The email arrives instantly. The letter tells us we have to get a messenger, a motorbike and a receptionist and all manner of bureaucracy," he opined.
Ruto's administration intends to use the digital space to ease communication between one government department to another.
According to Ruto, it was time Kenyans got value for resources they put at the disposal of their leaders.
Cabinet was having its usual Tuesday meeting at State House Nairobi.
