 Welcome to WTDC 17 here in Argentina and I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Nigel Hickson who is Vice President of UN and NGO Engagement for ICANN. Nigel, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much indeed, it's good to be here. Great to see you again. Now I'd like to start off by talking about WTDC, what why is this event important to ICANN? Well I think this this event is important full stop, I mean it's important it's the 25th anniversary of ITUD, ITUD which has done so much work on on development and accessibility for for the most marginalized people in the in the world so it's I think it's a celebration of that but it's also a an important opportunity to look forward to see the things that still need to be done. And in terms of policy and regulatory reformers I wanted to ask you obviously this is you know very much a topic of conversation here. What do you think is needed to bring connectivity to the next billion and to help achieve what's very much in people's minds the UN sustainable development goals? Well I think you've hit it on the head that connectivity is still the sine qua non of the whole rationale for this conference because without connectivity we just can't do the things we want to do. We all want you know more advanced internet services, people talk about blockchain, people talk about artificial intelligence, we need money transactions on the internet and across the internet but until we can get that connectivity in different languages to people all over the world then we're just not going to be able to do all those other initiatives and for ICANN this is just so important because although we're only responsible for a part of the internet ecosystem the domain name system for the domain name system to be attractive to be effective it needs to be able to reach all the people. We're trying to do our bit with international domain names but we need the wires and we need the spectrum to get to the people. Now obviously a lot of great conversations going on here but what actions would you like to see come out from this conference? I mean it's not for us as ICANN to do to tell what should come out of the conference but I think what would be great is a feeling after the end of next week that we've achieved something more that we've achieved something more that the resolutions we've adopted that the strategic plan we've adopted that the regional initiatives we've adopted are going to help the people that are not currently connected. And is there a message that you'd like to impart to the audience here obviously but also our wider audience? Well again I think the message it must be to all work together I think we have the same goal in sight and we just have to come together and fix our minds on the priorities. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you.