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    "id": 400879,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "October 30, 2013 SENATE DEBATES 26 Sen. Gwendo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to move:- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Standing Committee on Education, Information and Technology on the visits to Kisii, Nyamira, Kisumu, Kakamega and Vihiga counties laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 17th October, 2013. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will, first of all, start by giving a brief of the objectives of our visits. Normally, in our Committee, we call these visits ‘CONE,’ meaning County Oversight and Networking Engagements. I ask for permission to refer to the report in order to give you the objectives of our visits. (i)To identify salient issues that promote and hinder the implementation of devolved functions in education and Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sectors in the counties. (ii) To find out the county priority areas in education and ICT sectors. (iii) To gain insights on the experiences of the county take- off in the education and (iv) ICT sectors, including the required financial resources that would guarantee equitable development of the infrastructure of the two sectors; that is education and ICT. (v) To build networks for working in the counties in developing policy and legislation on Early Childhood Development (ECD) and education; and youth polytechnics subsectors in the counties; and, lastly, (vi) To assess the progress made in the infrastructural development on ICT connectivity in all the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, our first visit was to Nyamira County, where we visited a polytechnic called--- I am sorry; the Kisii name was difficult."
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