The Kenya Bureau of Standards has approved six standards that will speed up the growth of eco and socio-friendly cities that will offer Kenyans high quality life.
This comes a few days after the Bureau approved two new standards on management practices to boost businesses’ capacity to respond to the Covid-19 protocols.
According to KEBS managing director Bernard Njiraini, the standards will address among other things; real time data and informatics exchange, smart transportation and electric power infrastructures.
“The approved standards will facilitate the transformation of urban infrastructures into smart and sustainable infrastructures as envisioned in the country’s Vision 2030,” said Njiraini.
He noted that the standards will manage resource consumption in water and energy, enhance smart infrastructure development, ease access to government service as well as tackle environmental challenges such as garbage disposal and recycling.
The two Kenya Standards that were approved a few days ago are; KS ISO 22301:2019 and KS ISO 22392:2020 that aim to enhance organisations’ ability to recognise disruptive changes in an environment and adjust to them.
According to Bernard Njiraini, Managing Director, KEBS, these standards will help organisations recognise the opportunities and threats that arise from both sudden or gradual internal as well as external changes and react to them as has been the case with Covid-19 pandemic.
“Business continuity has become even more important this year as organisations look for strategies to ensure a quick resumption of service in the event of a major disruption, such as the Covid-19 pandemic,” he added.
The standards come on the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic which has had a negative economic impact on the economy and businesses, with 1.7 million people rendered jobless according to the Kenya National Bureau Statistics (KNBS).