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    "id": 594375,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Muzee",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kazungu Muzee",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. Like Mheshimiwa for Molo, I am a graduate of information science; so, I am an information scientist by profession. I thank Hon. Agostinho Neto for bringing this Bill that tries to organise health records and information management, dissemination and sharing. However, I have an issue with this because records and archives management is a very broad area. In fact, today’s record is tomorrow’s archive. Today we have an exponential rise in information, not just official information, but information from social media as well. While I support Mheshimiwa Neto on this Bill, I have a small issue with the fact that this Bill looks at specifically health information. We should be looking at records and information broadly. There is weather information, agricultural information and Government information. There is so much information that is important, and which cannot be left out, especially when we want to create a board that will manage records and information in the country. Financial records are also key. While I support the need to regulate training, as a matter of fact, we already have institutions offering training in records management. Records and Archives Management is a profession on its own. For example, it is a full department in the Faculty of Information Sciences in Moi University. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this profession is in its formative stages in Kenya, but worldwide it is a big area. While it is a good attempt at trying to organise health information, how we manage and share it with the people who need it--- We will need to look at this Bill critically to find a way of reorganising how it is put together. We should ensure that we include other areas which are critical in information management, and not just health records. I know Hon. Neto is from the medical industry. We understand that his focus and passion is trying to organise information in that area, but I think we need to take a broad view of records and information in the country, and not just records related to health. There are so many other records that our citizens, you and I, need to access to ensure that we do the things we want to do on a daily basis. We need this information for planning, execution, review and its management is critical. In fact, without information, we cannot do anything here. So, it is critical how information is created and managed at automation. Everyone is talking about automation, which is a very important thing, but it needs to be reflected on properly, especially when we use 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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