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    "id": 1368629,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "There are also new and emerging issues like climate change that the old Act of 2015, as it were, would not address. Of course, as was mentioned, there are issues to do with ICT digital hubs and allowing the NG-CDF Fund to cater for a certain amount of recurrent expenditure in the running of ICT digital hubs. Hon. Deputy Speaker—I was about to say, Your Excellency, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Maybe I am dreaming of good things for you. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the ICT hubs that His Excellency the President has purposed to be established in each of our 1450 electoral wards are ICT hubs that will revolutionise how we perceive the creation of jobs. You do not necessarily need foreign investors to invest in your localities for you to create jobs. You do not need very huge industries. Even with a building holding or facilitating an ICT innovation hub, you can create jobs to hundreds of people within that ward by enabling them to access the digital world and work online and digitally for companies outside this country or their areas of settlement. Tomorrow, by sheer coincidence, I will be launching an ICT hub in Kikuyu Constituency at the Nachu Technical and Vocation Education Training (TVET). Nachu Ward, which is in my constituency is among the most marginalised places in Kiambu County and part of the semi-arid and arid areas of our country. It would be possible that young men and women in that area will work for corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon and anywhere in the world just from the comfort of a TVET centre in Kikuyu. That will be the case for a young man or lady in Mandera County within a TVET institution or an ICT hub. Those who would have looked up to other job opportunities, where industries are being established in their localities, will now work from the comfort of their own counties for international and local companies."
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