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    "id": 866798,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Chris Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank the Mover of this Motion, Hon. Osotsi. The world is now a global village. I want to try as much as possible not to mention what other colleagues have said. The provision of free Wi-Fi is a noble idea. Free internet and free Wi-Fi will make work easier particularly to our unemployed youth because they can do e-business. In the field of academia, internet is very critical. I want to quote what Hon. Nelson Mandela said; “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. You can succeed in education when you have things like provision of free Wi-Fi. Many of the academic journals can be accessed through the internet especially when one is doing research. Many people at the higher level of learning no longer use text books. They use academic journals which you can only access through internet. It is a very expensive idea. If you have free Wi-Fi it is going to add value in research. There is an American professor by the name Neil Armstrong who was the first person to walk on the moon. He was the first aeronautical engineer and he said, research is about creating new knowledge that will add value to the welfare of the society. Today as we speak, about 80 per cent of the Kenyan population does not have access to the internet. I have seen the global figure which is at 49 per cent. We are doing poorly as a country. If you want to benchmark with many other advanced jurisdictions, you can only do that through the internet. For us to access the internet there should be free Wi-Fi. When you go to many international airports you will find that internet is free. In this country, when you go to a restaurant you are charged. Free Wi-Fi can only attract investors because communication will be very easy. Right now the Government is going electronic and that is why we talk of e-government, e- procurement, e-tendering even when it comes to our own constituency, if you want to access bursaries, we can go e-bursaries. You can imagine a student from the University of Nairobi applying for a bursary then they are forced to go to the village to fill bursary forms in which the chief has to sign. But with the availability of the internet, students will not need to travel to the village. They will just apply for bursary from here. Wi-Fi will make things such as communication easier. When there is free Wi-Fi, you can call for free. That means that it will not cost anything for you to communicate with your loved ones and clients in different countries. When it comes to doing business, it will be easier. Safaricom has been making super profits when it comes to data. I keep challenging Safaricom, when you look at the percentage of their corporate social responsibility, it is negligible but they are making super profits through internet. If you are going to have free Wi-Fi, it will add more value to the Kenyans because it will ease communication, processes of doing business and it will The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}