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    "content": "systems work properly in Japan, just drop your wallet and disappear for three days. If you will not be called by police officers to pick it, you will find it where you dropped it. We were shocked to learn that the crime rate is almost at 0 per cent because you are being watched whether you walk down to the subways or along the streets. People can monitor you and know who you are and what you are doing. These are not very expensive things that we cannot do. You then wonder what attitude is this that we need to change.If you have the hardware but your software, as an individual, is not inclined to think that ICT is a solution to your problems, then you will face an extremely difficult time. I challenge those of us who are in influential leadership positions that when you get a chance to address your county assemblies, please, tell them to look at the issues of budgetary allocation to their ICT departments. ICT is not just about providing cyber cafes. I have seen in certain counties the only glory that the governor takes is in saying that he has set up a cyber café in a particular ward and they consider that to be a success. It is about inculcating the use of ICT in almost all operations and making it as flawless as possible. Think about issues of corruption and the loss of public funds that we keep discussing.For example, when the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) was introduced to county governments, it took a whole lot of convincing and we even had to enact laws to force people to adapt to it. Finally, citizen participation is something that our Constitution places right at the centre of our democracy. All counties did something called County Integrated Development Plans (CIDP). What if all citizens had embraced the use of ICT such that this document was readily available in our smart phones? At this time, we would be questioning our governors according to what they were supposed to have achieved in the ward, sub-county or entire county. That would be an easy way of tracking development. You do not have to walk to the offices of the county assembly to ask for the budget plans and what has been set aside. We need digital governments which can think about the future and know that ICT is a solution and not part of the challenge. If you are not embracing it, then you are being left behind each day that you are not embracing the use of ICT in your operations and that your county is losing out. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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