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    "speaker_name": "Githunguri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": " I am glad that I have got this opportunity to contribute to this wonderful Bill. At the outset, I want to congratulate the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation in the National Assembly, Hon. KJ whom I previously served with in the previous Parliament in the same Committee. He is very informed and I am sure the members of that Committee appreciate that they have a talent in him. I participated in the drafting of this Bill in the previous Parliament in a way because I participated in the process of coming up with the idea behind Konza City Technopolis. Who knew or ever imagined that one time in the life of Kenyans, we would require oxygen. It is only during the COVID-19 period that we all realised how much we needed oxygen. Who knew that we would scamper for every available cylinder of oxygen? How many lives were lost because we could not supply sufficient oxygen in hospitals, clinics and dispensaries during the COVID-19 period? I think that is an insight that we need to adopt and start from. That whenever we are doing any planning in this country, we must give room to new ideas and innovations, and ensure that our structural designs accommodate such new ideas and innovations. Today, any person designing a hospital without accommodating or creating space for oxygen, distillation, oxygen pumping, gas and tanks for storage would be doing this country a lot of injustice. Anybody designing a hospital must consider how to put those structural requirements in place. Anybody designing a house of any form of a structure in this country must be doing this country an injustice if we do not come up with a special room called a technology room. Even in Parliament, on top of these gallery, we have technology rooms; and that is why we are able to adopt and move with the new technology year in, year out. The last Parliament did not have all these television screens that we now have. We only had one. But now, we have about seven or eight in the room. And these are new jobs created because they need cameramen to man them. The idea of the technopolis moving from Konza, a centralised place to a decentralisation programme is a welcome idea. We must have a technopolis in every sub-county if not every ward. For example, we need to adopt the way we are covering our events using drones if we need to accommodate the kind of technology that is coming year in, year out. I am just concerned that we are running up and down to take every available land that is left in our neighbourhoods. We are rushing to build markets and affordable housing in every other available space in this country. I am wondering why we are running to build affordable houses in the Agricultural Development Corporations (ADC) lands in Nyandarua, Nyeri and Kiambu. We are forgetting that we may need those pieces of land for the new technological innovations that are coming up in future. I was telling my brother KJ that right now, we are floating in the new information age era where models of technology are being adopted and new telephony is happening. We are 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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