 Hi everyone, I'm Ria, I'm the preparedness officer at the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster led by the World Food Program and I'm very happy to be here on the occasion of the Global Forum on Emergency Telecommunications or the GET 2019 being hosted in Mauritius. It's a very special occasion and it's also a very momentous occasion because the world is seeing an unprecedented rise in extreme events, natural hazards and also in conflict related scenarios. So this forum is a very unique opportunity for multi-stakeholder engagement and dialogue across a range of critical sectors and is also bringing together key humanitarian actors who are very critical for a good response to engage also with telecommunications counterparts such as for example mobile network operators and the telecommunications regulators. So through this space for rich and interactive dialogue it's very likely that some very interesting and very applicable solutions will be proposed for addressing emergency telecommunications priorities and also coming up with proposed solutions for making preparedness a critical component of the disaster risk management cycle and linking that well to response initiatives on the ground.