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    "id": 918805,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "empirical data to address such kinds of issues. To enhance some of the Big Four Agendas such as agriculture and manufacturing, we require research findings. The world over, universities are normally ranked based on the types of research or the amount of research that is going on in those universities. It is unfortunate that our universities are normally ranked very low save for the University of Nairobi that appears among the top 100. The poor ranking is as a result of poor funding. Madam Temporary Speaker, successful economies all over the world exploit the knowledge and innovation gained as a result of research conducted in their various institutions. Normally, the graduates use the knowledge they have gained from the universities to add to the development agenda of those particular countries. You will realise that with the superpowers, funding for research is very high. Our country’s funding to higher institutions of learning is very low; it stands at 0.8 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) compared to Israel that uses 4.3 per cent. The United States of America (USA) spends three per cent on research and Sweden spends three per cent. Our research funding is low yet we are a third world country. We are supposed to use more of our GDP on research so as to position ourselves to better levels. We want our country to be a middle-income country come 2030, but we cannot achieve that without doing rigorous research in our various institutions. Research will help us gain knowledge on innovations, software and it will also enable us to design new processes. Rivatex East Africa Limited in Uasin Gishu County had collapsed, but it recently got a new lease of life because of the new processes that were implanted. In fact, it is now producing laptops that are being supplied to schools. We got fascinated when we visited Rivatex East Africa Limited. In future, if more funding is added to that institution, it will be the best in East and Central Africa."
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