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    "id": 1089379,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1089379/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1046,
        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
        "slug": "kithure-kindiki"
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    "content": "During that period of industrial revolution, intellectual property rights were not protected. It was easy to steal knowledge and resources through colonization and exploitation of intellectual property rights. The second phase of countries that made it from poverty to success is the group of South East Asia countries, the so-called South East Asian Tigers. These countries did not have the advantages of lots of stolen resources and stolen knowledge. They had the advantage of a model of cottage industries where every village would have small industries dealing with light manufacturing. This model – if you ask me – is the one that remains available for developing countries to move from poverty to progress. Africa is perhaps the only continent left because it is yet to experience the third phase of industrialization, which will be driven by big date technology, innovation, internet and so on and so forth. Unfortunately, for Africa, our desire to industrialize is coming at a time when the international legal framework on intellectual property is extremely tight and demanding so that to patent an innovation, one has to prove novelty of it as well as other steps, which are very difficult. Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri will tell you that this is one of the challenges of appropriating the innovations and discoveries in Jua Kali sector because they cannot demonstrate all the rigorous stages that would be required for patenting and registration of other intellectual property rights. Therefore, I find this Bill quite timely. It is coming at a time when our country is struggling to remove itself from the shackles of poverty. I believe our potential to industrialize lies in the implementation of the Start-up Bill because it is going to take care"
}