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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, hon. Nyiva Mwendwa is not even listening to you. She is still continuing with the greetings. I beg to proceed. (a) The provisions that each pupil joining Standard One in 2014 will get a laptop but owned and stored at the school. The laptop shall also be accessible to other learners. (b) The adoption of a phrased whole school access approach which is called the mobile up in the second and the subsequent years of implementation whereby every learner will access a laptop on one to one ratio and on the need basis. This will guarantee equity and quality for all classes. (ii) The approval for institutional framework for the implementation of the laptop programme. On 13th August, 2013, the Cabinet approved the institutional structure to oversee the implementation of the laptop programme as follows:- (a) These are the institutions that were formed to fast-track and make sure that the implementatin is up to date. First, the Cabinet Committee, selected by the Cabinet and its role is to provide overall leadership and policy direction on this programme. (b) There was a formation of the National Selling Committee. This is a team of Principal Secretaries drawn from the various Ministries that have a critical role in the implementation of the laptop project. The Committee is mandated to provide all oversight, co-ordinate, resource mobilization and co-ordinate inter-agency forums for successful implementation of ICT in education programme for primary schools. (c) The third institution which was formed is the ICT Technical Implementation Team. The membership of this team is drawn from technical officers from Ministries and agencies with the Government and the academia. The membership was selected based on their expertise in content development, capacity building, ICT skills, logistics, finance and procurement. (d) The final one is the project implementation team, namely, the Secretariat. This is the Secretariat of the ICT Technical Implementation Team and provides the operational logistics of implementation. The Ministry has been carrying out sensitization of the various stakeholders on the model, implementation strategy and the ICT Implementation programme which culminated in the National Stakeholders Conference at KICC on 12th August, 2013. The Technical Team met four times with the Parliamentary Committee on Education, 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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