American IT company Intel Corporation plans to train 1.2 million Kenyan women on how to use computers and the Internet to search for jobs. The training, to be carried out in Pasha ICT centres across the country, is also designed to impart skills that will enable the women start their own businesses...The programme targets to train 2,000 women by end of the year and 1.2 million more by end of the first phase in 2016...Intel Corporation East Africa general manager, said: “The training will equip the women with 21st Century skills to help them stay globally competitive and enable them to access borderless jobs available online.” Suraj Shah, the Africa programmes director, said that the opportunities associated with women gaining access to the Internet include improvements in self-esteem and expression, expanding their social and political participation, and providing new skills that enable them to obtain formal education, become entrepreneurs, secure employment, and have access to information.