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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support this Bill and thank Hon. KJ who is very passionate about technology. I normally accompany him to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). He is usually our expert on technology that proudly showcases Kenyan excellence. I also wish to thank the Committee. I will propose very minor amendments to the Bill that basically relate to issues of governance. For example, on the Board of the Authority, the Bill is proposing five individuals. I shall be proposing that we have gender and age balance. Unfortunately, for some of us here, we need to ensure that the younger people are the majority in the Board, particularly the Generation Zs because they are more technologically savvy than us. It will also help in job promotion. Part of the challenges that we are facing as a country is the youth bulge that is very evident, especially because of lack of jobs and a few other governance issues. Technology is the present and future. Any country that does not invest in technology will be overtaken in the global economy. I remember when I was just doing my university degree the other day, I handwrote my dissertation. I am very good at using technology but I handwrote my dissertation. Unfortunately, somebody stole my luggage in an Akamba bus on my way from Homa Bay to Nairobi and it had my entire handwritten dissertation document. You can imagine how stressed I was because I had two weeks to submit it and there was no backup. I had to sit down and research afresh. I can remember when I was sitting down to redo it, one of my good friends, Njeri Mwangi – she works at the Office of the Attorney -General – introduced me to her sister. She told me that her sister knows how to use a computer. You can imagine, in my time, she told me that her sister knows how to use a computer. So, we went to her office at the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) one weekend because she was helping me to type so that I do not lose the document again. While we were sitting in her office, I was perplexed at how something was coming through a machine. I went back to my cousin who was very knowledgeable and always ahead of us called Felix Ochieng. He went to Lenana School. Even though Alliance High School students like pretending that they know things, Lenana School students are way ahead of them on a few things."
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