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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "and centre. However, for this Bill, the users will automatically be 99 per cent; so much encouraged such that there are no hurdles in between when someone tries to come up with a concept and an ideology. On protection of the concepts that the youth come up with, we have had cases before such as the MPesa. The tycoons run away with the concept and the innovator was left with nothing to defend themselves with. The Bill should have a clause that talks about how to protect a starter or the innovation that this particular youth or person has come up with. I appreciate the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC). Looking at the CBC concept, it is giving our children the concept of business and entrepreneurship. Do we want it to stop at the school level? It is high time we encourage our children. As parents, it is high time that we are encouraged. Children do not have to finish campus and then parents start offering their children’s Curriculum Vitae (CV) to their friends and colleagues to get them jobs. It is high time that we encourage them to begin from somewhere and start their business from the education they have received. The trend has been “I have a CV for my child, can I give it to you?” It is high time we encouraged them from the level they are in to start and start small. Even as we talk about starting, youth have also thought that at times you start a business and tomorrow you become a multibillionaire. There is turbulence in business. There has to be a gestation period for the business to grow. It needs time to grow and each and every stage has to be noted. There have been trends where our youth think that because so and so is my friend and he is driving this car because they are doing this business, then you think that you can also start and drive. They need to be patient, understand the business and grow. Madam Temporary Speaker, lastly, I acknowledge the online jobs that are in place whereby, you can just be in your space and just key in your phones, make a purchase and a delivery will be made. Even for Naivas Supermarket and many other businesses, you can make purchases online. This has been simplified. This Bill is not only talking about online business, but also tangible products and services that can also be offered as innovation. What also needs to be in place is a database for all the startups. This is to ensure that there is accountability and results. Are we moving in the right direction? All the incubations that have commenced, what are their results, is there an impact or something that needs to be added that is not in place? It is very key. Clause 4(2) talks about the establishment of incubation programmes; the part for promoting the linkages between universities and research. I feel that by the time you are at the university level and looking at the amount of school fees that you have to pay, it is an expenditure. It should be allowed in such a way that these incubations take place at Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions. The Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy has put IT hubs at the lower level. I like it that Sen. Crystal Asige talked about this concept being at the ward level, which is the bottom level. The bottom level is within the TVET institutions because these are Government institutions. As such,"
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