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    "id": 860771,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Moi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Kipsiele Towett Moi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the inquiries undertaken by the Committee, it has continued to inquire on the level of connectivity in the county with an emphasis on the former marginalized areas. This is pursuant to an undertaking made by the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Information Communication and Technology on Tuesday 6th March, 2018 where he outlined the Ministry’s target to ensure all Kenyans are connected to voice telecommunication by the end of 2018 as presented to the Committee during its sitting. Mr. Speaker Sir, to this end, the Committee made an oversight visit with the relevant arms of Government to the three wards. These are, Mumoni, Tharaka and Ngomeni wards of Kitui County between 19th to 22nd August, 2018. The visit has brought to the fore the glaring inequalities in connectivity. A written undertaking to connect these wards has been received from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) through the Universal Service Fund (USF). The Committee has scheduled similar visits in line with this inquiry in the first quarter of 2019. Mr. Speaker Sir, the Committee on Information, Communication and Technology has undertaken county engagements in line with their work plan. The visits are tailored in clusters where the Committee meets counterpart Committees in the county assemblies. The objective of the engagements is to provide a platform for engagement with Members of county assembly committees oversighting matters of ICT. Further, the Committee uses the forums to build capacity of the assembly committees in matters of legislation and oversight. The Committee has held two successful engagements in Embu County where 9 county assemblies were engaged and Kisumu County where 8 county assemblies were engaged. The Committee will continue to engage county assembly counterpart committees from the other regions in 2019. Mr. Speaker Sir, on public participation, as indicated earlier, the Committee mainly used public hearings, receipt of memoranda and targeted meetings to further and realize its public participation obligations. My Committee will be exploring and proposing to the Senate to embrace the use of ICT including social media and telephony to better its public participation strategy and be more efficient. Mr. Speaker Sir, on stakeholder’s engagements, the Committee, in exercise of its mandate, has engaged various stakeholders over the period under review. These engagements have been geared towards making the ICT sector more responsive to the 21st century challenges and to make devolution more efficient and effective. The engagements also provide a forum to monitor the extent to which the National Government has devolved functions to the counties and any challenges that counties may be facing in executing them. The main stakeholder met include- (1) The Cabinet secretary ICT; (2) The Communication Authority of Kenya (3) The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB); (4) The Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA; (5) The Kenya Film Commission; The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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