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    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill by the great Nominated Member of Parliament, Hon. Osotsi. This Bill seeks to establish the framework to do with training, registration, licensing, practice and standards of information technology. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, ICT is the root of everything but when it came to Africa, allow me to say that it was something very new that was assumed to be western. Since its inception into the African Continent, it has not really been embraced the same way it has been in the West. Hon. Osotsi is trying to underline that the practitioners need to be regulated in terms of both the training and the practice of the ICT sector. When you look at the training aspect, there are very many mushrooming colleges on the streets. They allege that when you get 24 packages in computer studies, this is a diploma. It does not make sense that you now just go to the street to train on what they call computer driving. You end up wondering whether you are supposed to drive a computer. This Bill shall now bring sense and establish ICT as a career. We want to embrace it from the lowest training level to the highest one. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when it comes to practice, what is happening in the field both in software and hardware, is that you find a very well trained engineer from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, which is my university, who has undertaken a course of five years in Computer Engineering and is able to demonstrate what he can do. But in between, he will claim to be a guru in ICT and when you bring him on board, he will charge any amount of money they deem appropriate because you are just a user and not a specialist in the training. When we compound all these and put them together for regulation by one organisation, I think it is going to do well. For instance, in the legal profession, lawyers respect that when they mess up, at least there is an organisation, the Law Society of Kenya, where clients report you. When marketers make mistakes, we have the Marketing Society of Kenya, which will correct and direct you on the way you are supposed to go. Similarly, Hon. Osotsi has indicated that even in ICT practice, these people should be regulated, coordinated and organised so that the users can benefit and avoid being overcharged and given wrong services. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, at times you find that you want to host your data on a particular cloud just because you do not know what a cloud is. You cannot see the cloud itself but your data is being stored somewhere and somebody just charges you enormous amount of money and can even access data without your knowledge. It is important that we at least have a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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