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    "id": 1382634,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1382634/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What an amazing Motion brought by the Hon. Member for Mandera South. This goes to the core of the things we should be discussing in this day and age. In fact, a technology discussion is taking Kenya where it ought to be. Kenya has been known to be an innovator and is ahead of other countries in developing new technology. This launch of a satellite-based climate change monitoring policy speaks to the direction that Kenya ought to be taking. It is important to note that the Hon. Member is only talking about satellite-based climate change monitoring. However, in this day and age, I think we can modify this Motion to an extent that we also rope in new, nascent and emerging technology. The clamour right now is towards the race for artificial intelligence. It combines perfectly with the technology that the Hon. Member is proposing. If we could have a policy that stipulates the merging of satellite technology and artificial intelligence in climate change monitoring, we shall have benefits accruing. One, most importantly, is accurate data collection. Any scientist, including Hon. Lilian Gogo, will tell you that data drives science. More so in this age of artificial intelligence. The language that systems are learning, on how simulated human intelligence will be speaking, is the language of data. Here we are in Africa, where AI systems are looking for data and data sets in Africa yet our data is still speaking oral language and oral tradition. We risk sleeping through a revolution as the world moves towards artificial intelligence. We need accurate data to inform how we plan for climate change. Most importantly, even for checking the weather. We had a false announcement by the meteorological department talking about an El Nino that was never to be. With data, we will not go into such embarrassments. There is a case to be made for adaptation planning. Climate change is happening. How are we adapting? If we are not on-boarding technologies like satellite-based climate monitoring and AI, we shall be victims of these changes. A great scientist named Louis Leakey told us that it is not the strongest or the fastest species that survive but the species that adapts best. Sorry. It was not Louis Leakey. That must have been Charles Darwin speaking about adaptation. 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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