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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khaniri",
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        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did not in any way suggest that. If the hon. Member was keen enough when I stood up to answer Mr. Mungatana’s question, I was for affirmative action. I said yes, his suggestion will be considered. So, I am just going further to enlighten the House on what else the World Bank is doing with my Ministry for this country. I think this is very important information that I would want to share with the Members of this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, under the Digital Inclusion Project, we will also provide a subsidy to university students to buy laptops. We will issue 16,000 vouchers to 16,000 university students to be able to acquire laptops. These will be spread amongst all the universities depending on the number of students in the universities. It will be given on quota basis. Mr. Speaker, Sir, under the Digital Inclusion Project we have what we call the Digital Villages Project, which will cost about US$3 million. We have already done this in four constituencies, that is; Kangundo, Malindi, Karachuonyo and Langata as pilot projects. We intend to do the remaining constituencies by the end of the year. The money will be channeled through Family Bank, and we have identified about 290 villages. That is to say that each constituency will have at least one digital village. The third project is the Public Sector Digitization. This is where the World Bank is helping our Government to convert the paper records that we have into digital records. The pilot project in this was the Ministry of Lands, the Judiciary and the Registrar of Companies. I am glad to report to the House that the one with the Registrar of Companies is complete and has been very successful. The fourth project is now what the hon. Member is asking about. This is the Local Digital Content, where we want to stimulate IT industries in Kenya by giving grants to entrepreneurs who have good ideas that can be commercially exploited."
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