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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "Yes, the Generation Zs because we are very boring, old and irrelevant. What I also love is the way they are using technology to make money. You would be shocked that the simple things that I see which is called “content creation,” they do not charge much. Maybe I am charged more because I am an MP. I do not know. Nevertheless, I am happy that at least jobs are being created. One of the things that I raised around the Generation Z revolution was that we need to formalise this sector. This Bill is trying to do that and I thank the Committee. One of the things that I love about the Bill is that it will be setting up a technopolis. I watch Crime and Investigation Network a lot. One of the things we are behind on, is when you have crimes on technology and issues of sexual and gender-based violence increasing. Some of these crimes are perpetrated by children against themselves. Sometimes back, I reported here on the Floor of a case where high school students in uniform were having sex and being filmed online. We also see children having sex in swimming pools and the same, being shared online. I want to link it with the issue of mental health. I want to encourage the Committee that part of the things that you need to do, is link technology as part of the negative spinoffs that Hon. Oundo was talking about. When you are young, you are foolish. We were also young at some point even though we did not do the things that this young generation are doing. However, we made mistakes that are correctable because there was no technology to see such things. Some people stole those ideas because during their times in high school, there was no such technology to cover what we were doing. People did many funny things and nobody covered them. However, with this new technology, it is covered and circulated. Recently, a lady called Achieng’ was being buried in some place in Luo and her case went viral. This is because everybody was attacking her at the funeral while her children sat there with their schoolmates. She was called names. It is good they were talking to a dead body. However, many young people were seated listening. How do you address such issues? We must not only look at the benefits but also the negative spinoffs of technology. I hope we would be able to look at that as well. When I was younger, people who did not know how to read and write were considered illiterate. Can you also consider Gumbaru in technology? I am Gumbaru in technology because I am literate but not that literate. And if we do not move with the speed that is required of us, we will be left behind by the young people. We should therefore, catch up. Probably, not with their speed otherwise we will not understand their language. Sometimes back, I spoke about being a bad girl and it went viral all over the world by the way, incidentally, up to America. I was in Ghana recently, and somebody walked up to me at the airport and said, ‘‘Bad girl.’’ While walking in the streets, I cannot miss someone calling 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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