27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly:
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House:
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
Reports of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation on: Consideration of Public Petition regarding failure by the Government to regulate activities of the Citizen N ewspaper;
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
Report on the International Broadcasting Conference held in RAI Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 13th to 28th September 2018. Meeting with Amazon Web services and related IT companies held in Washington, USA from 4th to 8th September 2018. Thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. This is a timely Motion that has been brought by my colleague, Hon. Osotsi. Kenya is way ahead. Statistically, we are fourth globally when it comes to innovation. In the last five to 10 years, we came up with e-Government services. You will realise that most of the services being offered at Huduma centres have really helped our youth when it comes to accessing services. The services that we access through Huduma centres and e- citizen are things like applying for passports, driving licences and work permits. It is ...
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
Members are saying that they hope our youth will use this Wi-Fi wisely to access jobs and other services instead of writing letters. There is the Data Protection Bill which is coming. We also passed the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act. That law will take care of any misuse of the free Wi-Fi that we will put across. Even before the Bill comes to the House, I saw in yesterday’s newspaper that people are already fighting it. This is something that will help us. Despite the fact that we lack funds, indeed, there are other sources of funds. We have ...
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the last point that I wanted to note is what the Member from Chepalungu said. If you look at most of the constituencies, the electricity coverage is less than 20 per cent. It is 4 per cent in Marakwet East and 30 per cent in Marakwet West. As we push to have Wi-Fi in the constituencies, we also need the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) and Rural Electrification Authority (REA) to move with speed to ensure…
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
The Select Committee on NG-CDF said that every constituency should have four innovation hubs. As a Committee, we have started a conversation with the Ministry of ICT, so that we can establish two innovation hubs in each constituency every year. We will use national Government resources instead of NG-CDF. There are constituencies with three wards and others have eight or nine. It will not be equitable to say four wards. In the next Budget in the Financial Year 2019/2018, we will sit down with the Ministry of ICT, so that we can fund two innovation hubs in each constituency going ...
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Motion.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Hon. Millie agreed last night to drop her amendments. I reported the same to the House. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, the Schedule to the Bill be amended in the proposed amendments to the Kenya Information and Communications Act, 1998 (No.2 of 1998) by - (i) inserting the following new amendments in their proper chronological sequence− s. 6(1) (e ) Delete the expression “in accordance with section 6B”. s. 6 Insert the following new subsection immediately after subsection (1)− “(2) In appointing the members of the Board under subsection (1) (e) the ...
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