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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I thank Sen. Mungatana and Sen. Omogeni for contributing to this Motion. As we participate in international conversations with other Parliaments around the world, I would like to bring it to the attention of this House that these spaces are important. This is because we get to learn what is happening around and borrow from each other, develop and strengthen international co-operations around Parliaments of the world. The IPU is the union of all Parliaments of the world except a few. As we meet during these sessions, very key issues are discussed, including peace, security and how different nations can come together to strengthen the rules and regulations that we have internationally on peace and security, food security, sustainable development and emerging issues. When I moved the Motion, I spoke about the science and technology committee that I am sitting in that has been a very educative forum because there are many things we take for granted. You will find the world is getting driven by technology and we are all going there, but not planning for it properly. Parliaments of this world and parliamentarians do not necessarily have the capacity to know what kind of policy to support within their arms of government. Therefore, these sessions enable us to converse and see how to move legislation in these areas. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one of the technically ongoing conversations that is happening is the matter of internet governance. I do not know whether anyone is moving serious legislation and policy around internet governance in this country. Internet governance is a complex issue that would require we re-focus, knowing that internet makes the globe a one centre, because with internet, you can access information, not from your country, but from other countries as well. We need to think on how we can have complex regulations that can ensure that, as we use internet because it enables us to move on many fronts, it will also be a safe space, especially those who are vulnerable, including minors. We would not know how to do these things unless we deliberately are trained on this, and I am not aware of, at the Kenya level, any trainings that our Parliament or Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) has put in place to guide us on understanding the complex scientific areas that require that we regulate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the Angola meeting, one of the resolutions moved by the Committee on Democracy and Human Rights was a resolution on orphanage The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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