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    "id": 705411,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I want to support this Motion. I would also like to thank Hon. Mwaura in absentia for bringing this Motion. We are in a fast world in intervention of technology. We have travelled a path as a country with an education system that provides competition in innovation from primary and secondary schools through science congress. If all the discoveries we have made in these laboratories and award won would have been implemented, we would have been exporting technology instead of importing it. We import lighters, matchboxes and toys that would have been made very easily here. We also import very ridiculous things some that are used for a purpose that I do not want to mention here. This is the case and yet we see many of these things on the streets made by our children who have not even gone to school. They only need a trick to make them useful in the modern technology. It is important to nurture talent. In the 18th Century, when we had the late American evolution, North Carolina was among the poorest states in America because their economy was mainly based on tobacco, furniture and textile. It was among the third bottom in technology in America. They established three universities in North Carolina namely The Duke University in Durham District, the North Carolina University and the North Carolina State University. These universities were mainly centres for knowledge. They realised they were not going to get out of poverty because of these universities. They were only breeding experts and technicians but they were only going to enrich the other part of the country because they did not have any centre of innovation. They decided to establish the research triangle, which has innovation centres. All the talents picked from these universities were put in this place. The blue chip companies like the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), General Electrics, Microsoft and Apple were set up in North Carolina. This was because land was cheap and labour for the technology that they needed was easily available and cheap. This is because fresh graduates were not as expensive as the old and experienced ones. Based on that there was a change in the economy of North Carolina because there were many immigrants coming in to benefit from the research triangle and jobs were created. Today, North Carolina is among the top five in the economy of America because they nurtured their innovation centres. We must ensure that we tap talent and ensure that it is not scattered. We must make sure that we do not have brain drain, whereby we educate people but they move to other places to practise. This Motion is critical because it will ensure that the great innovative minds of the young people in Kenya are retained here. These innovations should be utilised at a fee or get market for the same. However, the situation in Kenya is wanting. The system of protecting the intellectual rights for our youth who have innovations is cumbersome. There is a lot of bureaucracy when one needs to patent an intervention that you have. There is lack of legislative framework that enables one to patent this. Some of the ideas are stolen at an early stage. The concept of M-Pesa was brought up by the youth but they never saw the light of the day. There is need to ensure that intellectual property rights law is streamlined to ensure that copyrights and patents of our innovators have not only been implemented but also respected. We have very many musicians who hardly benefit from their original music because there is a lot of pirated music in the backstreet. The law enforcement agencies have been unable to implement this law so that people caught pirating are brought to book so that our musicians benefit. They 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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