By Faustine Ngila More by this AuthorThe digital quality of life (DQL) in Kenya has been deteriorating during the Covid-19 period, as the demand for affordable, stable, fast and secure online services keeps soaring, a new survey reveals. While the 2020 DQL Index Edition report, carried out by Virtual Private Network service provider Surfshark, exposes Kenya's weak and below average digital quality of life during the pandemic, it ranks the country 61st in the quality of delivery of e-government services. Key among factors the study used to rank countries are internet affordability, internet quality and speed, electronic infrastructure and penetration, e-security and e-government services. Focusing resources on improving a country's cyber security and protecting people's personal data would have the greatest impact on their digital quality of life," says the DQL study. Information points used to index the digital quality of life around the world were gathered from open data sources provided by organisations including the United Nations, World Bank and the International Telecommunications Union.

Source: Daily Nation August 22, 2020 17:37 UTC