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    "content": "and others. You can count up to ten innovation hubs in Nairobi, but when you go further afield, the further you go outside Nairobi, the fewer the innovation labs become. Within the entire lake region which covers about six counties, there is only one innovation lab called Lake Hub. They are doing very badly. They are not getting funding and sometimes the question is who should fund them. Is it the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology or is it the county government? I believe that counties should be able to step into some of these things and encourage the development of innovation hubs. At a minimum, the way we have said that each county needs to have a university or an airport, if we are serious about this ICT revolution. We must also say that each county must have a technology innovation hub. That should be driven by county governments and not necessarily by Members of the National Assembly through Constituency Development Fund (CDF) as I have seen the proposal coming from the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology. Issues of innovation, incubation and laboratories to foster technological breakthrough should be coordinated by the county governments. Members of the National Assembly should come in to plug in into the broader plans that the county governments have come up with, which should be consistent with the national plans. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the county governments that we represent have complained about inefficiencies and weaknesses in the performance of the IFMIS and the other platforms that is used for personnel management Integrated Payroll and Personnel Department (IPPD). There are certain counties where they say that they only get connectivity for 25 minutes. The Chair of the Council of Governors is on record asserting Lamu as one of the counties where business cannot go on because they lack connectivity. There is a Universal Service Fund (USF) that is established by statute. About 0.5 per cent of the revenues that Safaricom Limited makes annually go into a fund that is being managed by a civil servant within the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK). Right now, the fund is valued at close to Kshs5 billion. The objective of this fund is to ensure that in Kajiado and the northern part of Kenya there is no pocket or corner without mobile network coverage. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we say that the next election shall be electronic, will we be able to get network coverage throughout the country? Are we serious when we say that we will scan and transmit the forms from the polling stations electronically? Do we know whether there is full coverage countrywide? I see a Member The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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