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    "id": 1555960,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What we call Silicon Valley today is out of a policy in the United States of America (USA) called Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) a few decades back and also the proximity to Stanford University. STEM Policy gave the USA many immigrants who were very good and smart in those areas. The availability of money from Wall Street gave them seed money to commercialise those ideas. This goes on to show how important research and development is for the growth of the country. I challenge the nominee that in many developed economies, the budget for research and development actually comes from the private sector. That way, it is given room to thrive. For example, if you look at the research and development budget for a company like Amazon, it is bigger than the entire research and development budget for Germany. In the USA, if you take only two technology companies, their research and development budget is bigger than the physical research and development budget of the USA. Lastly, as a House, we must look at the size of the Government. This is a new State Department. I do not think that the previous one ought to have been split. One person can handle our universities and this State Department can stay where it was before. The actual roles are done by the Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs). We have universities on one side. In this State Department, we have National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) which duplicates what the Principal Secretary will be doing. I submit, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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