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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to second the Motion. Let me give a few additional points. First of all, of course, I thank the Chairman and our Committee because we went through this Bill. We all saw the importance of enabling the technopolis to be advanced beyond the Konza Technopolis. As I begin, I just want to lay the base on why this is very important. The Chairman has spoken about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but the one thing that most people do not understand is where we come from as the world. The First Industrial Revolution was called the Coal Revolution and that was in the 18th Century. We then went to the gas revolution which was the Second Industrial Revolution in the 19th Century and then we moved to the electronic and nuclear in the 20th Century. Now, in the 21st Century, we are talking about the Fourth Industrial Revolution which is concerned with the Internet, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of things. It is very important for us to expand the technopolis beyond just Nairobi because we do not want, as a country, to keep playing catch-up. We are a country that is very innovation-driven. Many of our young people operate in that innovation space. This is going to enable them to have access to what we call an innovation ecosystem. This is what the Bill intends to do. The Bill, as the Chairman has said, has a total of 67 clauses. The beauty about this Bill is that it lays a base for us to have a legal framework to create, manage and develop technopolis in Kenya that address urban challenges that we have so that we do not have a situation where everyone wants to come to Konza, but that they can get the technopolis in other areas in this country. We have defined, in this Bill, the licensing process, the process of creating the technopolis authority, the process of how that authority will be managed and how people will benefit from it. The other very important thing is also the financial aspects of the technopolis and how that is going to be managed. Most of the time, we have situations where we have very good policy papers in our country; we have very good frameworks, but the implementation lacks. For me, what I would just like to ensure that we do is that, because we already have the Konza Technopolis in place, we mirror what is there and transfer it to other places. Just as the Chairman has invited Hon. Members to visit Konza, I would also love to see our Hon. Members visit it. We want to get to a space in this country where we also have smart cities so that we are in line with what the rest of the world is doing. At Konza right now, they are even coming up with systems that will enable even our local police to use innovation and technology to do their job. That, for us, is very progressive. We have a university in Konza called the Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) that seeks to educate our young people on the internet space, computer engineering and everything that is within that space. That will help us expand our knowledge and ensure that we are not only learning about the other industries that are currently in this 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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