 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2017. I am very pleased to be joined by Boris Koprivnikar, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Public Administration in Slovenia and Chief Digital Officer. Hello and greetings also from my side. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. So, ICTs really formed the backbone of today's economy. So, what role do you think they play in terms of sustainable development goals? Well, as the backbone of society, economy and basically all the processes that we are running in the country, of course, the key role, if we can connect the ICT to support the sustainable development goals and really to address what's in the interest of the people and the businesses and only that support with the ICT technologies, then we have a successful society as a whole. And part of a successful society is of course successful economy, it's a business, it's profit, but also quality of life and respect to the environment that we are living in and we have to protect it. ICT has one of the key connecting roles of all those SDGs and all those processes in the society. So, what efforts do you think can be made together to link the SDGs and WISIs at the UN process level? First, we have to share the data. We have to understand that ICT is never closed in the one country's borders. We always communicate globally. So, it's important to have the common standards, standards of communication, standards of data exchange, also standards of smart decision making, because ICT is bringing us something that was never possible before. Our decision making can be based on a lot of data which have to be according to the processes of the big data and complexity science analyzed and then our decisions will be faster and smarter. And as we know that SDGs are also not closed in the country's borders, it's important that ICT is connecting us, that we address those common goals together and in that way more successful. International organizations have to play that key role to support us, that we can openly communicate and then we can be together more successful. So, what efforts are you making in Slovenia to link ICT and SDGs? Well, generally, we're using very, let's say, practical approach. We know what are the goals, what are the strategies, the long-term interests that we want to achieve, apply. But we are interested in how to do it. We established a digital coalition that we share the common directions together with all society stakeholders. That means NGOs, government, businesses, research and science. We centralized the informatic processes. We built one of the most modern cloud infrastructure in which all the data and processes can be reused and supported to each other. We accepted, of course, the strategy which is focused on, or under the, let's say, strategy, Slovenia, green reference country in digital Europe. What means that whatever is invented and there to use, we want to use it on a system level, not as a new invention, but something that's really generally used. And in that case, we also want to promote Slovenia as one of the most successful countries in digital development. By the way, we are the fastest-growing digital country in Europe. So, obviously, we are doing something right. But we are looking on informational technology as a nerve system of the society, so we'd have to be synchronized and coordinated. Boris Koprivnikal, Deputy Prime Minister of Slovenia. Thank you very much. My pleasure.