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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Daniel Nanok (",
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    "content": "parliamentarians, and in so doing, we will dissipate some of the fears that our members of the public have about the work Members of Parliament do while they are here. Based on those observations that we made as a Committee, having interacted with experts in Parliament about how we can improve the broadcasting of parliamentary business using these online platforms, the Committee recommends that the Parliamentary Service Commission, which is the executing arm of this House, reviews the Parliament of Kenya's social media policy to account for technological changes that have arisen or that have come in, the new trends, and ensure that policy remains relevant. We do not have to go by what we passed in 2016, and you bet the changes that come with these technologies come so fast. Some of these things that were passed in 2016 are not relevant anymore. So, the Commission needs to review that policy and invoke it, so that it is useful for the broadcasting and visibility of Parliament and the Members of Parliament. The parliamentary website needs to ensure that the official social media channels are domiciled on the website for easier accessibility. If that can be put into one website where you can access your Instagram on Parliament, the YouTube, and those other social media platforms, it would help in terms of ease of access. Developing guidelines on the packaging of content or information of activities undertaken by the Members of Parliament in their respective counties and constituencies, and dissemination of the same through the YouTube and other social media platforms would be a plus for this House and the Members of Parliament. We need to follow the works of the Members of Parliament right to their constituencies. We are rich in terms of what we do as a legislative arm of Government. We are rich in terms of these services that we offer the public that have given us the mandate to come and represent them here. My Committee is asking the Parliamentary Service Commission to allocate adequate resources in their budget for purposes of identifying the focal people that can be used by the Parliament social media engagement to collect information, bring it and process it, and package it in a useful manner that is going to educate the people of Kenya and sell the Members of Parliament and Parliament as an institution in a manner that will give Parliament its dignity, and its worth in the society. Otherwise, at the moment, there is a lot of inauthentic information and stories about Members of Parliament and Parliament as an institution. You will find a write-up of a Member of Parliament by a media channel that is not factual nor truthful and that hurts the image of Parliament as well as the Member of Parliament giving us a raw deal in terms of who we are as Members of Parliament and what we stand for as leaders in this country."
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