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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was waiting to get a copy, but I will proceed by appreciating that this is a Government that saw it important for us to go digital. Most of the work in Government is digital, and even the President himself will always be on his iPad. As we now look at digitising our business in Parliament, and we have partly done so; it is important for us to ask ourselves whether we want to continue to have it partially or fully digitized, because you will always find us struggling looking for the papers. Today, in a meeting of the Members Services and Facilities Committee, we were asking why we did not digitise nearly everything at the Bunge Tower? Until now, we still have to wait for each other to finish meetings instead of having a digital platform that shows on the screen that you are supposed to finish business and the next Committee that is about to occupy the meeting room is the Departmental Committee on Labour, and so on. This will give the Committee time for planning to enhance efficiency so that we do not take so long on manual process. I am just giving an example. We need to ask ourselves many questions. This is the House that presents all the laws that we have in the country. We are pushing ourselves to have all constituencies fully digitised. We must be serious if we want to be very clear in open Government partnerships. If you want to have transparency and efficiency, it is good to use different digital applications. There are a few interesting things that we have to push for in the services sector and the way we look at our Human Resources (HR). We need to question and have good answers from all our departments. If we were fully digitised, you would not be wondering why you do not know the number of staff in the whole of the Parliament. I doubt any Member of Parliament knows the exact number of staff this institution has. If we had a digitised platform, people would even get to know when they are about to retire and that gives you a way of planning. That is what all civil servants are doing now. We have to come out clearly on the way forward on this matter. We should avoid signing the attendance sheets. Members should be able to receive some of these things on their iPads at a click on their portals. They should be able to tell the number of times they have been in Bunge, and attendance in committee sittings. If we had such system in place, it would help and guide us as we move forward. In this 13th Parliament, we must ensure that photocopying of papers become a thing of the past. I hope the Parliamentary Service Commission will also help us in this regard. They also have to look at the new Tower and bring in that excellent example that they are telling us about. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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