 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. And I'm joined by Leon Strauss, President of the International Federation of Information Processing. So it's the ICT's professionals. Can you tell me why are you coming to the WISIS Forum? As the Federation of Information Professionals, it is something we feel very important for us. We acquire a lot of knowledge on ICT, both in development, in research and in applications. And all this knowledge should be shared, definitely with those countries that are lagging behind and do not have the resources and capabilities to benefit from the advances in ICT. And how exactly do you go about sharing all of this knowledge? The most common thing to do is organizing conferences where we invite people from all disciplines, researchers, politicians, practitioners, to share the needs and to share the experiences on both sites. And that's very effective in the last ten years. We've been doing that since the Millennium Development Goals, since the WISIS started actually. Because I can imagine that what works in the West won't necessarily work in some of the developing countries. Exactly. Not one-to-one. I mean, the technology and the application is obviously similar, but the constraints are different, the local circumstances are different. So we need the involvement of both parties, of both sites to discuss what is possible and what is needed. What are the constraints? What are these sort of constraints, for example? Maybe the infrastructure is not yet ready. Maybe the level of education is not at the level it should be to advance, to benefit to the maximum. So there's quite a few different perspectives to look at. So in fact there's a lot of building capacity or training of people in these applications. Exactly. And I understand that you are going to be speaking at a high level session tomorrow. What's your main message there? My main message is partnership. I mean, we have a big community of professionals, but even that is sort of a volunteer-based effort with a lot of volunteers wanting to do something, but it's a partnership that's required because we need the local community, the educators, the governments, etc. So tomorrow I will make an appeal to look at partnerships, which is in the SDG number 17, to see how we can make progress. I mean, we've been talking about this for many years. So now let's see how we can come back next year and say we've managed to do a lot of partnerships. And what will you be looking at? Because what have you learnt is you say that this has been talked about for a number of years. So what have you learnt about what makes a really good and solid partnership? I think one of the pitfalls is to start too ambitious. I think starting on a smaller scale, making sure you have a concrete proposal where you can show results that's beneficial and then the rest will follow. And you certainly can't copy and paste. It's something that has to be worked out. Precisely. Well, I wish you luck in getting the partnerships that you need at this WSIS Forum. Thank you very much for joining us, Leanne Strauss, who's the President of the International Federation on Information Processing. And please do stay tuned to the ITU YouTube channel, where you can see many of the videos that we'll be doing during the Forum. Thank you.