{"id":1055644,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1055644/?format=json","text_counter":202,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Nominated, ANC","speaker_title":"Hon. Godfrey Osotsi","speaker":{"id":13172,"legal_name":"Godfrey Osotsi","slug":"godfrey-osotsi"},"content":"So, when we say that that we want to split telecommunications into money services, voice services and data services, we will create a big problem. That is against the whole spirit of innovation which we, as a country, seek to promote. Our Digital Economy Policy that I saw the other day talks about empowering Information and Communications Technology (ICT) set-ups to be the drivers of the economy. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as you know, ICT is no longer a service, but a product. It is the bank, school and Parliament. It will become everything. Instead of ICT chasing the law, it is the law that should chase it because it is growing very fast. I am totally against the idea of the split."}