Mutahi Kagwe

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• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: connectivity better than us because they are now connecting their towns, schools and hospitals. It is up to us to ensure that is also done in Kenya. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have been talking about Konza, the ICT city, that we want to come up with in Machakos County. As you can see, the uptake is very slow. The champions of such a project need to be identified and asked to push for those projects. But one Konza City is not enough for Kenya. In India, they once had one area that had fibre cable. What that meant is that eventually the area became very expensive. We need a Konza City in Machakos County and another such city in other counties such as Nyeri and Kisumu, so ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: Two weeks, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other good and great advantage of technology is that it will stifle rural-urban migration. There are people who say that in certain parts of this country, people are not getting children and that some areas are depopulating. I know that Nyeri County is depopulating because of migration of our people to towns. It is not just about the alcohol that my brother, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o would like to imagine. People are moving to towns and leaving the rural areas very bare. Therefore, for us to attract young people to the rural areas and towns that are ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we emphasis more on county governance in this country, it is crucial that we also emphasis on fibre connection. If you compare the current cost of broadband in our country with countries elsewhere, you will find that one of the objectives that we had as a Ministry when we created TEAMs has not yet been achieved. The cost continues to be very high. If I may compare the cost of bandwidth between ourselves and some of the countries that we compete with in creating ICT jobs, you will find that they are quite expensive. Kenya, for ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: done charges US $37.8 per month for the equivalent of bandwidth when India, the country that we must compete with, if we want to create ICT jobs, charges only US$6.1. So, if you compare US $6.1 and US$37.8, you will find that a company that wants to place its core centre somewhere in the world will consider India long before they consider Kenya. If you compare further with Sri Lanka, you find that they have lower charges of US$5.5. If you are looking at a country that wants to position itself in a peaceful area, where they can create a ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: usage, not the road or the fibre itself. That can help in keeping down the cost of connectivity. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other cause for the slow uptake that has been highlighted is that every person who connects fibre to the counties has to dig a separate path. This is total inefficiency. What should happen is one of two things. Either, when we are constructing roads, we must lay ducts to the design of a road, to allow fibre optic cables to pass through. In so doing, we can keep the cost of digging low. It is environmentally unfriendly and ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue is the high cost of CCK licenses for 4G and other new technology that is coming up. It is also expensive. So, what we should be talking about is that, as we upgrade from 3G to the 4G spectrum, what we should do is discount to companies with frequencies for that technology so that even as we wait for the fibre optic cable to come, the companies can use 4G to be able to connect themselves to IFMIS and also to be able to create the jobs that they are talking about. Therefore, I ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, with your permission, I would like to donate two of those minutes to Sen. Wangari. view