 Welcome to U.S. Forum 2018. I am delighted to be joined by Mr. Bakar Tarawali, who is Director of Communication at the Ministry of Information and Communications of Sierra Leone. Thank you very much for joining us, sir. Thank you very much. So, to start with, can you tell us about the role of ICTs in Sierra Leone to deliver the SDGs? Thank you very much for that. I think you see in the past we've been assessed on the benchmarks based on outdated editors, especially coming from sources that have been getting their data for a long, long, long period back. And so, therefore, our assessments in the benchmarks have not been accurate. And now that we have put in place even the big data and the open data portal, we have been able to have the SDG reporting on that portal. And so, today, we are able to ensure that all the efforts that are going towards collecting data and reporting on the SDGs are on the open data portal. And that's why it's important, isn't it, to have a framework in place like we see it has attempted to do for the past 15 years? Yes. And I think we've benefited a lot from the WSIS. And we are implementing our ICT in Sierra Leone based on the ideas and the knowledges that we get from these kind of sessions. Sierra Leone is a young country, isn't it? And you also have remote communities that are still not connected. So, you've achieved a lot of progress recently, but there's still a lot of work to do. Tell us more about initiatives involving ICTs to enhance inclusion and connect the unconnected. Well, you see, since 2007, with the current government, efforts were made firstly to ensure that broadband was introduced into the country in a cheaper and accessible manner by landing the submarine cable. And after which the government ensured that they are able to lay the national backbone across the country, about 70 percent of the country is now connected through fiber optic cable. And so, therefore, the effort is now taking the services to the rural communities. And a lot of effort has been done towards that, especially by the operators, the private sectors. And we continue to encourage them, in fact, to utilize the national backbone to take their services to the unconnected. Today, I'll say about 40 to 50 percent of the rural communities are now online, especially with regards to internet. And now we are also planning to take data to the rural communities and also starting with the government institutions and the fiber to premises. Mr. Tara Wally, thank you very much. Thank you very much.