 Welcome to the World Radio Communication Conference 2023, WRC 23 here in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. We've got the great pleasure of being joining the studio. I have Mr Geraldo Netto, who is the Vice President of the Telecommunications Management Grouping, TMG, as well as being Chair of Working Group 6B here at the Radio Communication Conference. Mr Netto, welcome to the studio. Thank you. I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about your work as Chair of the Working Group, and also what does the Working Group do? Thank you. Well, this Working Group is very intense and important because it's basically under this group that we are discussing all the neo-gender items, which means every single aspect that we are going to be studying for the next four years for WRC 27, and this covers all the different services. So you can imagine how many different interests and how many people are involved in that. And I think, and I'm super glad to be having that experience in chairing that group, our position that is really to facilitate the discussion. Sometimes those discussions are a bit intense and we have some divergences, but I think the importance for me as a Chair is really to be able to listen to that and provide some guidance in terms of how these people can converge in some ideas. We are halfway through that discussion and hopefully we can get to good results. Now, a lot of people have gathered here for WRC 23. It's very much a multi-stakeholder approach, let's say. It engages governments, regulatory authorities and industry. How successful is it in finding consensus on the issues that are discussed here? I still believe that the process we do is the correct one when we involve everyone. Of course, we have government officials, we have the industry, we have everyone that is from the sector here defending their own positions. Some of them are focusing on very specific services, but when you look at the government entities, they need to understand their national priorities. And when we get to here at the WRC, we need to try to find the commonalities of that. So I believe having this open process to all to give their voice and express their concerns and having this consensus-building process leads us to at least a common understanding. In the end, everybody will feel that they may not have gotten everything they wanted, but at the end, I think it's the greater good that we're achieving here. Looking at the greater good, there's been a deliberate effort to encourage more women actually to participate in the work of the radio communications sector from your working group experience. Is this effort bearing fruit or is it a work in progress? Well, it is bearing fruit, but I think it's the two ways. It's still something we need to work on. I have both the experience in the different groups in the ITU, but also in the regional groups where we are having the network of women. Exactly to support, we have a great leadership here, but support the new entrances and the new participation. I think we are creating that safer environment for that. But still, I think there is a next step to it, which is incentivizing the delegations to actually provide more leadership with women and training them to participate more. So it's a work in progress, but I see a lot of evolution on that. And myself, my girlfriend, my boss, they are all women and they are in this sector, and they see how important it is that we increase that participation. Let's talk about the conference itself. What are you hoping will be some of the outcomes, the principal outcomes from this conference? Well, when we are looking at this new agenda items, I think some of the discussions we are having are related to the current ones, but we see some lines. For example, in the satellite sector, we see the increased regulatory provisions for non-justices because, of course, there is a lot of interest, a lot of new companies there. So we are trying to look at new applications, new frequency bands. We have also on the satellite side, on the mobile side, this discussion of direct-to-device communications, which has been going on for the past year, so it's interesting to see this here at the WSC as well. From the terrestrial side, on the mobile side, there is always what is next in terms of mobile broadband. We are talking about potentially frequencies for 6G, and even in the scientific services, we have new interesting applications, like space where we are talking about lunar communications as well. So you see, in all the sectors, there are some new interesting things happening, and hopefully by the end of this, we can have a successful outcome. And also a successful 2027 as well that you are preparing for? Correct. Excellent. 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