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    "id": 334139,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/334139/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is globally recognized that science, technology and innovation is essential for the economic growth and competitiveness of all nations. Science, technology and innovation is also a key component of social integration, sustainable development and poverty eradication based on equity, freedom, justice, governance, peace and prosperity. At the international level, science, technology and innovation acts as a tool of international co-operation and solidarity. It is used for knowledge and information and facilitating globalization with human development while concomitantly strengthening national governance and acting as a vesture of common heritage and international co- operation and solidarity. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Kenyan Vision 2030 pillars spring from Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) foundation. The Vision and the Constitution of Kenya 2010 explicitly places a premium on the generation and management of knowledge and the need to raise productivity and efficiency with the aim of transforming Kenya to a knowledge-based society. The Vision and the Constitution recognise the critical roles played by research and development in accelerating economic development of the country. Given globalization and the imperative of knowledge-based economies, there is need for transformation to achieve the goals of becoming a middle mid-term economy by 2030. This calls for a critical revisit and application of science, research, technology and innovation as an engine and driver of knowledge economies in general and knowledge- based economies, in particular."
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