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    "id": 1277189,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1277189/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Eliud Owalo",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communications and the Digital Economy",
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    "content": "I also stated that morning that there were investigations going on. In the course of operationalisation, certain issues had emerged. As a Government, we were looking at issues pertaining to conformity to the set rules and guidelines. There are issues pertaining to security. There were issues pertaining to policy laws and regulations which we were attending to as a Government. In the course of that very day, Government was going to take action. That was what exactly my colleague Hon. (Prof.) Kithure Kindiki did in conformity to what I had stated early on. Secondly, was the issue of whether or not foreigners could be interested in our data. Granted, data is the new oil and we cannot block our eyes from the possible interest of our data from foreign entities. I believe that as we speak, that is subject to the ongoing investigations and at the tail end of that exercise, we will ascertain the authenticity or otherwise of those fears. Once that is done, we will make that information available to both Parliament and the public at large. On the issue of innovation and security, innovation is constant in today’s world. We are operating in a dynamic operational environment where technology is the in thing. Kenya as a country cannot be an exception. What we need to do is that as we innovate and embrace technology, we also simultaneously ensure that we do not expose the country unwarrantedly to possible cyber-attacks. This is why we are putting in place an elaborate mechanism, risk mitigation framework to ensure that as we digitise our records and digitalise our services, we are not exposing ourselves to cyber-attacks, but conversely putting in place an elaborate risk mitigation framework. On the issue of the composition of the multi-agency team, that team entails membership from various facets of the Kenyan Government."
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