3 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
The Report of the Departmental Committee on Communication Information and Innovation on the Consideration of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2017, National Assembly Bill No. 33 of 2017.
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3 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Budget Estimates. The ICT sector is a major enabler of the Big Four Agenda. For instance, digitisation of houses and medical records will positively impact the pillars of affordable housing and universal healthcare. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the National Insurance Fund (NHIF) is at an advanced stage in terms of rolling out universal biometric system and digitising all their records. Having a weather/climate warning system installed, farmers will be helped to make appropriate decisions. This will improve food security. In ...
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6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Over the years, each of the MDAs have been buying licences for Kaspersky and other security systems. With this policy of centralising all the ICT services through the Ministry of ICT, the Ministry is going to save a lot of resources because of economies of scale. When you buy all these in bulk, the cost of buying licences comes down by close to 40 per cent. The Ministry will use the savings on projects that will assist in implementation of the Big Four Agenda. The Committee on Information, Communication and Innovation is in charge of the Ministry of ICT. In ...
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6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Another key issue that the Ministry intends to deal with is building of constituency innovation hubs. Later, in this particular financial year, we will be seeking additional funds so that at least each of our constituencies can have four innovation centres. This will help in creation of about 500,000 jobs for youth because we intend to enable the youth to look for employment online. They can do research online from their own constituencies instead of going to big towns to look for internet access. Internet access will be available in each of the wards in our constituencies. I thank the ...
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26 Apr 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, yesterday, Hon. Musimba, Hon. Koinange and I sat for close to two hours and we agreed that some of the amendments will be carried by Hon. Koinange. Hon. Musimba has several amendments on page 24 of the Order Paper on the long title and Clause 16A to Clause 16H. He also has additional amendments on Clause 3C. That is what we agreed. According to the Communication from the Speaker, most of Musimba’s amendments were carried by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security.
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26 Apr 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I want to inform the Member that all the amendments I had brought are retained. What we are discussing now is recommital of Clause 23. As you can remember what happened in the morning, we wanted to drop this clause.
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26 Apr 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 3 of the Bill be amended— (a) by deleting paragraph (c ) and substituting therefor the following new paragraph— 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.
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26 Apr 2018 in National Assembly:
“(c) facilitate the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution and punishment of cybercrimes”;
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26 Apr 2018 in National Assembly:
(b) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (c)—
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