 Today is the fifth day of the WSIS Forum 2016 and we welcome you all for a vibrant day full of workshops, thematic workshops, country workshops, action line facilitation meetings, knowledge cafes, hackathons and a lot other workshops today. We are joined today with the high level track facilitators who are a part of the new format that we introduced this year to the WSIS Forum. The WSIS Forum had several innovations this year and moderated high level policy sessions were one of them. This was based on the results of the open consultation process from the WSIS Forum 2016 and the WSIS Plus 10 Onga overall review outcome document. I have the pleasure of having all the high level track facilitators with me here today. I'd like to start with Shaila Fennel from University of Cambridge. Shaila represented the academic community and I'd like to ask Shaila to share some impressions of the WSIS Forum with us here today. Morning Geetanjali. For me this is the first WSIS Forum and as an academic member as a high level facilitator, someone who read the IT reports and engaged through reading with the community, this has been a very exciting opportunity. What was particularly for me valuable was the sense of cooperation between ministers, organizations and of course most amazingly the team that we shared here. So thank you very much and I hope that we have another version of this in the years to come. Thank you. Thank you Shaila. Professor Greg Shannon from Carraguman University. Professor Shannon, what were your impressions and takeaways from your session and from the WSIS Forum in general? From the Bridging Digital Divides it was impressive how the eight panelists all had actual progress in Bridging Digital Divides and huge optimism for continuing that in the future. Thank you Professor Shannon. We have Anna from the technical community and I believe Anna, this was the first WSIS Forum for you. So what were your impressions and the key takeaways for you from the Forum? Thank you. It was my first WSIS Forum. I moderated a session that included delegates from four continents and four different groups of stakeholders and it was fascinating that all of them had wonderful case examples of the way they are addressing the enabling environment for ICTs, climate change and cyber security issues. Indeed WSIS Forum, the key platform for sharing best practices and showcasing best practices from all over the world. Good morning Nigel. Nigel too represents the stakeholder community from the technical community and Nigel you are a regular at the WSIS Forum and what was different this time and what are your impressions from the WSIS Forum this time? Well thank you very much. I think it was different and this experiment that you referred to in having facilitation in having questions rather than statements I think is a brilliant innovation. The panel I had the privilege to moderate comprised of ministers from a number of countries and what we really found was an energy, a real energy to do something to use ICTs to implement the sustainable development goals. Not there on the detail yet but the principle and the purpose behind it is all there. Thank you. Indeed Nigel, ICTs as an effective solution for implementing and achieving the SDGs. Good morning Lorie. Lorie had indeed a very special panel that was dominated by civil society organizations and Lorie can you share some of the real case studies and excitement that emerged from your session? Thank you. Yes, it was a very exciting session and the new optimal word has come out cyber optimism that there are NGOs out there with a lot of energy. More specifically we had cyber volunteers who have more technical and experienced users teach new users, new technologies. We had Bridge Africa who is helping the African continent create websites through texting and we had the Bangladesh NGOs who for radio and communications who are helping women and youth broadcast local content in local language. Thank you. National, regional experiences being shared at the WISIS forum. Thank you Lorie indeed. Hello Klaus. Klaus represents the civil society. Klaus has been a great supporter of the WISIS forum since its inception. Klaus, can you share your first impressions of WISIS forum 2016? As Nigel already mentioned, it's a different spirit. There's a spirit of cooperation, there's a spirit of optimism and the key message of my session was quite simply let's get it done, let's really work on the sustainable development goals and try to fulfill them. And I think that's a brilliant message in a time where we don't have many positive messages. Thank you. Thank you Klaus. A positive message indeed, partnership and collaboration is key to success. Good morning Karen. Karen you moderated a very interesting session and it had a lot of good messages for us so that we can improve in the future, we can make it even more vibrant. Can you share some of the key messages that came across to you? Sure. First of all it was an honor to be part of this inaugural process of high level facilitators so I'm very grateful for that. I think a work of the last ten years has really culminated in some significant change at WISIS and we look forward to taking that into IGF as we, in other activities that we get through the year. For my panel it was very interesting and we were very honored to have the minister from Mexico on our panel and as we're leading up to IGF which will be in Mexico hopefully we can take those case studies that were presented. It's global issues but we need to definitely look at it and have discussion on a local level about that so my key takeaway was to sort of keep that momentum going. Thank you. Thank you Karen indeed going global to local and local to global sharing all our experiences. Good morning Thomas. Thomas represents the United Nations University and he also had a very interesting session in fact his was the first session at the WISIS forum. Thomas as the first moderator what was your impression of this new format? Yes I would like to say I'm a long-term attendant of WISIS forum and I particularly appreciate the value of the forum for international and cross-sectoral networking and this year in particular I was impressed by the growth of the development orientation intersecting in various interesting ways with various action line WISIS action line so we really begin to see the connection between WISIS and SDG taking shape so congratulations to ITU. Thank you Thomas I'm joined here with Ifad. Ifad does extremely interesting work in the area of gender equality and gender mainstreaming in the area of ICT. Ifad as you also know that the UNGA high-level outcome document stressed a lot of importance on gender equality being a cross-cutting issue around the sustainable development goals and the ICTs. What were your impressions of the WISIS forum and your session in particular? First of all congratulations to the WISIS forum organizers and it's a welcoming step that we are moving from statements to dialogue and that's one of the biggest difference with that we saw at WISIS forum. Also of the sessions that we organized on gender equality and the sessions that I moderated the high level sessions the recurring theme which I find really really promising was poverty reduction and gender mainstreaming through ICTs so I'm very happy to be part of all this. Thank you. Thank you Ifad poverty reduction and gender mainstreaming through ICTs is extremely crucial. Good morning Cece. Cece had a great session he represents the African Civil Society Network. We'd like to thank you Cece for offering us the African goodies and the local food and drinks that you shared with us. Cece what were your impressions of the WISIS forum this year? Thank you Geetanjali. I'm very grateful of the big big improvement of the WISIS I'm a long-term participant in the WISIS but this is for me the best one because of the format because of the military stakeholder approach and because having moderators from all stakeholders and my main my session was on bridging digital divide and what we really stressed was think for business people think about people as a human being also think about local contents think about local languages so that you can broaden your your market and make people concerned by ICT just not go for fun or for gadgets but think about the the human aspect of ICT and I congratulate you and all the team of ITU and ITU partners for this very brilliant and innovative way of conducting the WISIS forum. It's really excellent. Thank you. Thank you Cece. I'm glad that we could live up to your expectations. We are joined with Chinmay who is the nomination who was nominated from the WISIS Civil Society Coordination Group. Chinmay what were your impressions of your session and the new format of the WISIS forum? Thank you Gitanjali. This is my second WISIS forum. We are the Center for Communication Governance at National Law University participated last year. I was so happy to see how the forum is evolving and becoming more multi-stakeholder. It's creating new spaces for engagement for different stakeholders. This year we actually organized the workshop on enhanced cooperation in addition to my high level facilitation and I found that both created spaces for a lot of engagement with all kinds of stakeholders that we wouldn't get to meet otherwise which was very valuable to us and I look forward to future WISIS forums. Thank you so much. Thank you Chinmay. We hope to see you again and again and we invite you already for WISIS forum 2017. In conclusion I would like to invite Mr Yaroslav Ponda who is the main person behind the WISIS forum. Yaroslav in conclusion what is your view about the new format and do you think that this can evolve into something very useful for the WISIS forum? Thank you very much Gitanjali. We in fact following up on the outcomes of the ANGA review which concluded that the WISIS forum should be held on the annual basis in Geneva for the next 10 years. So we are starting really the new decade of the real cooperation and this is the proof of how we can engage with different type of the stakeholders in May in order to make this real transition from the statements to the real actions in the field and this is our objective of the WISIS to make sure that the WISIS framework is impacting and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs and we are looking forward to the next year WISIS forum 2017 with engagement of all our multi-stakeholder representatives at different levels from leaders and to those who are really doing the work on the ground. Thank you Yaroslav. Our multi-stakeholder high-level track facilitators did an excellent brilliant job. They set an example for the WISIS forums to come in the future. People will be looking at them and their reports as a reference point for the future. Please do read their reports which are already online on www.wisis.org slash forum. Thank you very much and we hope to see all of you in 20 WISIS forum 2017. Thank you.