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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
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    "content": "already. I have had an opportunity to interact with how the legal framework has been done in some of the other countries, especially in Asia and some of the African countries. I can tell you for a fact that because of them being able to put legal frameworks and recognition of this particular service, they have been able to increase the efficiency and security not only of the service providers but also of the people who particularly consume this service. One of the things that will be helpful in this is data protection because data protection in terms of the people who use any online platforms has become quite a big issue. I like the fact that the Committee has recommended that that be one of the solutions to ensure that there is proper governance in that particular space. We are also talking about automated payments and security. It can become very cumbersome for an e-hailing operator to walk around with physical cash. So, having automated payment processes for this will be very helpful. I have seen that one of the recommendations the Committee has made is speaking directly to the e-hailing service providers who distribute food. I do not know if it has had an opportunity to interact with the dabbawalas of Mumbai in India on what they have been able to do in that particular space because that is one of the oldest and most successful stories when it comes to food deliveries. What the dabbawalas used to do and are still doing, because it is a business that has been there for more than 130 years, is that they collect food from the different homesteads in India and take it to the workers in another area. It has been reported that they have had 99.9 per cent accuracy in terms of collecting foodstuffs from the right homesteads, transporting the same to the right workers, and transporting the containers back. So, this is one of those stories that I would like the Committee to have a look at especially now that they are recommending for us to have a proper way of doing food deliveries because that is a very sensitive area. If you look at some of the recommendations the Committee has made, they make a lot of sense. You can also see that they affect different departments and ministries. But my worry, and I am hoping the Committee is listening to this, is that under each recommendation, they have given a timeline of 90 days for different ministries to process the recommendations and bring their reports back to the House. However, in the recommendation, they do not specify when they would like these different ministries to start. A ministry like the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) which has been tasked with developing a digital courier services network could start its job tomorrow and then another ministry like the Ministry of Roads and Transport which has another task, starts their report writing after one week or a month and all of them have a period of 90 days. If this is not happening at the same time, it means that we will finish this parliamentary calendar without a formidable multi- sectoral engagement on how this legal framework will have been done. This will render the work of the Committee a process in futility. Therefore, I am hoping that the Committee is listening to this and that they will take it into consideration to ensure that if it has different ministries working on coming up with a legal framework that is relevant to its specifications, then it needs to have it happening concurrently so that we can have an actual report in 90 days rather than not giving them particulars of why they want to process this. Having said that, and with that recommendation that I am giving to the Committee, I would like to once again support this report and hope that this is finally something that we will be giving back as a gift to the people who are operating in this space so that we make it more efficient and safer for both the service providers and for the people who are using that service. With those few remarks, I support and submit. I thank you."
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