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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Godhana",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dhadho Gaddae Godhana",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what we are talking about here today is about technology. It is about trying to modernize the way we reach out to the people of this nation. That is what informs technology. The world over, ICT has been identified as the main enabler to growing economies. Kenya, as a country, has identified ICT in Vision 2030 as the main tool to moving this economy forward. I wish to remind hon. Members in this House about how fast technology is moving. Some years back, two or three years ago, when Closed-circuit Television (CCTV) was introduced in Kenya, people were celebrating but to date, we have not moved any step in adopting it fully in this country. As we still scramble to embrace CCTV in Kenya - I want to mention here the efforts by the City Council of Nairobi to try and bring on board CCTV in improving security in Nairobi - other countries are moving very fast. In fact today, we are talking about IPTV but we are still thinking on how we can accommodate CCTV. In terms of telecommunication technology, I want to remind hon. Members that we are still talking about the first generation. In fact, I can assure you that most hon. Members here do not own third generation mobile phones. Those who have them keep on bragging every day. Other countries have moved to fourth generation and are now moving to fifth generation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, today, we are talking about migration from analogue TV technology to digital. Most of the countries all over the world have already embraced it and we are still negotiating and wondering how soon we can migrate from analogue to digital. Those are just some of the technologies that we can talk about in ICT sector. It is very critical that if we are serious about making this country a third class economy by the year 2030, given that 2030 is a few years to come, we have little time to catch up in terms of technology. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we want to remain relevant and catch up with others, be able to struggle, defeat them and move ahead of them, we cannot sit in this House without supporting this Motion. I want to urge hon. Members that they do not have to think twice about it. This budget is quite small. It is supposed to set the pace towards the implementation of ICT in this country. The Assistant Minister talked about us being able to be a country of excellence. I want us to look at the word “excellence”. It is not about embracing ICT only but to be excellent. Therefore, I wish to urge them to support this Motion."
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