 Thanks for joining us here in Geneva for WSIS Forum 2019 where we discuss the role of ICTs to help Deliver the SDGs and with a big focus on youth this year to discuss it I am joined by Sebastian Behaegel his secretary general of Thermune 2019 Sebastian. Thank you for joining us. Thank you It's a pleasure to be here so Sebastian You're here at WSIS Forum 2019 to present your work and your work is basically this sort of Global network of conferences where you raise awareness about SDGs and how you can use ICTs to help address them Exactly. Well, Thermune is part of a program called MUN. It's the model United Nations and what happens is we try to Copy these conferences copy these large UN conferences for the students So students from around the world take the role of diplomats and the debate the issues that are being debated right now at the UN And so this makes them being aware of the problems and trying to find solutions from a youth perspective And so Thermune is one of these conferences which is organized in Geneva every year in January and which Takes 600 students from 28 countries This was the the the counts of this year and to debate on these worlds on these issues and how how perhaps we can Solve solve these problems and of course ICTs are part of the solution, aren't they? Yes Well this year we kind of concentrated on the SDGs and the technology linked to them because we realize that technology is essential for every SDG and so Thanks to this debate on these SDGs We're trying to find solutions to implement this technology because we realize that youth are surrounded with technology They're the first generation which are growing up with iPads iPods phones, etc And so they have perhaps a new perspective that could be interesting on how to implement this ICT into the SDGs It's interesting. Do you think that compared to previous generations young people these days are more aware that we have to solve some of the world's most pressing issues like climate change and empowerment of certain communities inclusion Yes, you feel the momentum. Yes I actually really feel it because we feel that talking to my friends, etc And I feel that education has played a great role because I remember when I was a when I was a kid We had to try and find solutions to use less electricity use less water We were giving filters at school to put on our taps to use less water And so I think this kind of it's kind of vibe if I can call it of the new generation trying to trying to reach for climate goals We can see it on social media. We can see it Everywhere through strikes that are taking place Every Friday will not every Friday but Fridays during school And I think that yes this new generation is kind of taking action on environment And we have to continue this momentum so that it doesn't fall short and so we realize some Concrete solutions. Have you been at this forum before? I've never been a wisdom forum It was a pleasure to be the first time here and it was it was great Yes, so what tell us a bit more about your experience actually of the forum Well, I was accepted in the while I was brought invited to the high-level track And so this It's made it possible for me to present firm you and present what we're doing with my team with my school And directors and how how we're implementing and giving kind of a youth perspective on how we're implementing ICT towards the the goals and the SDGs and etc And it also made it possible to have contacts with to meet new people to meet people that doing the same thing or different things And to see how we can work together, etc. Okay, so that's in the haggle. Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much It was a pleasure being here