 Welcome to WSIS Forum 2018. I am delighted to be joined by Mr. Karol Okonski who is Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs in Poland. Thank you very much for being with us today. And you were WSIS Prize winners this year, so congratulations. Thank you very much. Yes, as a matter of fact, we won in the first category, the Action Line 1, dealing with supporting the support of the government to the development of ICT. And yes, we are really proud that we won the prize. It's the project actually also that has a very, I think, important role in the whole community, especially in the area of education. The project name is the Nationwide Education Network. It's about providing the high-speed internet to all the schools in Poland. So we are speaking about more than 30,000 schools and in total about 5 million pupils and teachers that will be then by this benefit from this project. It's not all about, you know, thanks to this high-speed connection. It's also the idea of providing the content digitally, so the new ways of teaching the teaching children. And also there's some special security measures to make sure that when using internet that the content will be adapted to the audience, so the pupils are the teachers. It's a good illustration of how you can use ICTs to achieve the SDGs. Yes, yes, because, you know, in the end it's like, it's of course the fundament, the foundation I would say, you know, that bringing the high-speed internet itself, you know, that will not solve the problems, like, will not solve, you know, the first goal of SDGs, like, and poverty, like directly, but indirectly in the end it can, you know, better the whole situation in the given community. You know, when there was the low population, in some rural areas when there was low investments, because it was not really beneficial for the companies to just bring money and invest and provide this high-speed internet with the subsidy from the government, then the high-speed, the connection to the internet of the school can actually spark the initiatives around the school, around the community, and the access to ICT, the applications that are making it available to the pupils or the other teachers can actually open the perspectives also there. So this, like, you know, starting the journey and the ICT then here can play, can be this trigger that helps them actually, you know, achieve their goals and then develop, you know, their competences. The big theme at WISIS Forum 2018 is building a knowledge and information society, and I understand, and, Paul, and you are making efforts in terms of open data in particular to create a real digital society. So what can you tell me about it? It is true. I mean, we know that, you know, the governments are collecting the robust amounts of data, and in the end, I think our goal as a government is to make sure that this data can be reused and provided to the public, both to make sure that, you know, the government is made accountable and that the actions are transparent. So, you know, for some kind of surveillance and control of the citizens of its government. But also this data can be, let's say, the special, the resource for providing some new services that, you know, there's a company that can collect data and reach them. I mean, I'm speaking of what's a non-personal data. So making some combinations, and then in the end, there's a new business application, new business value derived from it, which in the end as a source takes this government data and making sure that this whatever government produces can be then made public and shared with the public is something that, you know, we approach and try to approach in a very systematic way. So we have, like, a special program, opening data, a government data program, let's say, with a special structure also, the policy makers with the so-called data officers within each ministry, which whose role is actually to make sure that every valuable, every data that has some value will be provided to be reused, but also in the right format, in the right standard, which only then when the data is like, say, delivered in the right standard and can be also processed and can be reused. So it's only about opening data, but also the way that you do it. So the access standard and the standards in terms of only technical but also the legal security, if we have common understanding and the knowledge that is passed to all the people involved, both the institutions and the citizens, then we then can be sure that this data can live, have a lot of lives, I would say, and be reused over and over again. So from the same stem, from the same route, then becoming numerous, numerous values. Mr. Okonski, thank you very much.