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    "id": 1089316,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "The direction the world is taking is towards innovation. Many people do not know that Ellon Musk was born and started school in South Africa. The applications he did, what they now call Yellow Pages, were serious innovations at that time. Today, we take it for granted. You recall back in the days, Posta had to distribute a directory, a thick book. If you did not have that, you could not get addresses and post office boxes of organisations in this Republic. People like Ellon Musk are the ones who innovated the Yellow Pages. After that, he sold it and moved to another venture and another. Now, Ellon Musk and the company he founded that is coming up with electronic vehicles is bigger than all the automobile makers combined. Toyota, Mercedes, BMW, name them. Tesla is bigger than all of them out of a small innovation. If you look at the richest men in the world today, they are all in that innovation ecosystem. I believe we can support and promote local innovators to ensure they get into the market. Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the areas I have been very proud of when it comes to our local innovators has been applications that have been built to collect revenue in county governments. We have had a long conversation about the collection of revenue, for example, in Nairobi City. I recall there was an organization called Jambopay that provided that service. In my past life, I saw that organization grow. We first started having conversations with them to come up with an automated solution for payment of insurance premiums. That was a time when insurance companies were insisting on cheques or Electronic Funds Transfers (EFTs). They did not trust M- pesa or online solutions or that insurance could be sold online. From those small ideas, it grew into a huge conglomerate. So huge that genuine concerns were raised by even the Auditor-General, on some of the operations and loopholes that existed in that system. They grew so big that some people got jealous."
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