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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Kenya National Spatial Data Infrastructure is a national initiative to provide better access for all Kenyans, the essential geo-spatial information, about natural resources and related geographical locations. Since geo-spatial data is not containable within the national boundaries, it is necessary to integrate within the region and, by extension, the entire world, hence regional spatial data infrastructure, and the global data infrastructure. It aims at ensuring that the users of this information will be able to access it very easily after paying some few nominal fees. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Geo-Spatial Data Infrastructure produced by different stakeholders must be continuous, homogenous and in a standard form that is normally exchangeable. This can only be guaranteed if we establish and maintain such an infrastructure within our system. The core data basis comprises of reference system in land matters, boundaries, transportation, administrative boundaries, buildings, vegetation, geographical names, utilities, topography, hydrography and imagery. The Land Information Management (LIM) is an information management system based on registered land parcels. I am saying that if we have a LIM system in place, we can even interrogate it from our phones and query whether a certain land reference number that you are about to commit yourself in terms of purchase, constitutes part of a public utility or a road reserve. The products we derive from the LIMs system are basic information that can be of assistance in preparation of land titles. With the input of National Data infrastructure, we can interrogate issues on boundaries and get information on ownership, for example, the history. We can also go out and share the information with relevant departments because we know that there is a very big disconnect between our departments where some Ministries do not even share data with other Ministries. I would like to quote an existing example. In the construction along Thika Road, we have seen facilities like the ICT cables and electric power poles being vandalized because there is no data connecting Ministries so that when the Ministry of Roads is designing roads, it knows where such facilities pass so that they avoid them. Due to lack of accurate maps, a lot of resources have been wasted on planning, rerouting, repairing of utilities during the construction of transport infrastructure. These utilities include the facilities I have talked about. This country spends millions of shillings when such facilities are removed from wherever they are during construction. These facilities are rerouted when the roads are being done. If we have such an infrastructure, wastages of resources will be eliminated or minimized because the utilities will be properly geo-referenced, mapped and data shared between various users. The other day, some Members of Parliament were wondering how authentic the titles that people whose houses were being demolished at Syokimau are."
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