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    "id": 1012752,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "and our initiatives are strategically supposed to be domiciled and from there, cascaded all the way to our counties. Unfortunately, in the last week that we had a meeting with the Council of Governors (CoG) with regard to the digital economy, the awareness of the national digital blueprint, they seemed unaware of it. The Ministry needs to make sure that when it comes to ICT, they do not think that it is just a national issue but that counties should be involved. On the other hand, there are so many other parameters such as power, for instance, that affects the digitalization of our economy. As the Committee on ICT, we are following up on these issues. The national addressing system is one that we dealt with this morning in the Committee on ICT, to ensure that every place has both a digital and a physical address at which the digital economy and E-commerce can thrive. Mr. Speaker, Sir, one of the things that I will bring a report to this House on is the issue around the national digital blueprint, which seems to disappear somewhere at the Ministry and not enough engagement with county governments. That said, the PPPs cannot be gainsaid with regard to digitization because certain counties, especially those that are not covered by the basic broadband for 2G Network. When we go to 5G in other places, they are going to be left behind. The digital divide will be too much and will add on to some of the marginalization that we have been talking about. I support and we will make sure that we look at the content of Sen. (Dr.) Mbito’s Statement and take action therein. I thank you."
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