 Good morning. The topic of today's discussion is eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity. This is in line with the topic of the high level political forum for this year and the WISIS Action Line facilitators have worked together on a publication that focuses on this particular aspect. Let's listen to our WISIS Action Line facilitators and learn more about the key challenges, opportunities and trends that are featured for this year's WISIS Forum. Good morning, honey. You are facilitating WISIS Action Lines on e-agriculture and e-health with FAO and WHO. What are the benefits that ICTs bring to universal healthcare? Thank you, Jetangeli. We strongly believe that ICT can really make a transformative change in the health sector, particularly in achieving universal health coverage. It's basically all about empowering. Empowering people with the right information at the right time, regardless of who they are, where they are and their income level. It's all about making sure that they are getting access to basic information. They know where to get the quality service and also they get access to quality medicines. There are a lot of opportunities, also particularly when it comes to access to basic financial services and basic insurances that can really help them to mitigate any kind of risk. It's all about empowering people with those types of basic services that can really help them achieve universal care. Thank you, honey. You are facilitating this Action Line with WHO. Unfortunately, they could not be here with us today. Along with FAO, you're facilitating Action Line e-agriculture. Of course, food security is very crucial for achieving the sustainable development goals. What role can ICTs play there? Yes, absolutely. Again, for smallholder farmers particularly, many people are still living in rural areas and they don't have access to those types of basic information. What to grow, how to deal with plant diseases, how even to deal with their livelihood and how they increase their income and how they kind of mitigate risks about disasters and climate change impacts, etc. With the power of ICT, because it has this strong outreach, now everyone has a mobile phone and simply on his phone he can get the right information at the right time, customized based where he is with the right weather information, with the right alerts about disasters, etc. and also help them to better sell and buy products for his farms. So it can really have a transformative, again, change power to really change the conditions of lives in everywhere and really ensure that no one is left behind. Thank you, honey. Bhanu facilitates the Action Line C7 on eScience. And my question to you, Bhanu, is what role does eScience play in eradicating poverty? In fact, in order to understand this, we will have to essentially look back. When the HLP was formed, High Level Panel was formed and Alain J. Shreya-Liff, Social Law Banguang and Devin Cabaran were asked to put together review MDGs and also lay a foundation for SDGs. At that time itself, there was a unanimous conclusion that the MDG was failed to achieve only because the science was not properly ingrained or mainstreamed in all of the effort that the world put together. So that has brought a new context for science and technology as well as innovation in SDGs. And if you look at 2014 report, The World That Counts, in fact, SDGs now is very data hungry. Whether you look at, you know, also 2016 Global Sustainability Development report, where also the context of eScience has been brought forward as the principal vehicle to achieve a sustainable development goal by 2013. Thank you, Bhanu. We have Preetam Maloor, who is the Action Line Facilitator for C5 from the International Telecommunication Union. Preetam, what role does cyber security play in eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity? Thank you, Gitanjali. So the digital economy is obviously becoming a growing part of the overall global economy and that number is set to just grow up, go exponentially. And, you know, that will be a key driver for prosperity in the future. But it's also important to remember that, you know, it will be a driver only if people have trust in its use. And as we bring the remaining billions online, when the developing countries, the least developed countries come online, people from those countries, it's important that they retain their trust, you know, but or else without trust, you know, there is nothing. And we saw that the recent attacks, WannaCry attacks, which affected 150 countries. So these are incidents that we should all work together to, you know, mitigate the risk to make sure that it doesn't happen or we are resilient enough to bounce back. And that's where I see the value of the facilitation mechanism offered by Action Line C5. And I see a lot of great conversations happening in Mrs. Fordham 2017 and that. Thank you, Pritam. We have here with us David from UNESCO who facilitates the Action Line C3 access. In fact, access is crucial to implement any of the different Action Lines. David, what is your view on that? And I think it's your first time at the WSIS Forum. What do you think of it and how do you feel here? I feel great. It's amazing to have opportunity to exchange and discuss real topics. In particular concerning access, we're now trying to focus on how to provide the opportunity to everybody to participate in all the digital world which has been described. So what about trying to provide citizens with the necessary skills sometimes or even the confidence to understand the digital world. So this is really the topic that we also try to focus here. So in practice we are trying to promote this as a topic which also permeates into the education system for example so that people that are not only using the tools that are provided but also fully understand what does it mean to use tools so they can also understand what's behind. Like on topics like open data, on topics like cyber security and understand how IT is really changing their lives. This is crucial when you think about access for development because you go the next step, you don't limit yourself to use something but you really go into participating. Thank you very much. We heard from our colleagues who are facilitating the different action lines within the WISIS framework and how ICTs can play a crucial role in advancing the SDGs. UNESCO has organized several workshops at the WISIS forum this year and as you can see their entire team is here and they are also a co-organizer of the WISIS forum. Harrah is the coordinator of the WISIS process at UNESCO. Harrah what is the vision of UNESCO and what strategy do you see coming from UNESCO for implementing WISIS to achieve SDGs? Well the key word is universal access to information. If you have every citizen has access to information it consists of two components one is right to access the information, the platform, the ICT platform to access the information. UNESCO has very clearly defined its role and responsibility to have this universal access so that every citizen of the country have access and so that there is a direct link between access and eradication of the poverty. The more access, the more transparency, no corruption and the more visibility of the development process. So there is a clear link between universal access and also the eradication of poverty. SDGs clearly mention about this issue and if you have less poverty and more prosperity. So there is a clear link between UNESCO's approach objective that is universal access to information and eradication of poverty. We are working towards that with this big data or any other issue is directly linked to access, universal access. Thank you Harrah. This is exactly what the WISIS forum does. It provides us with a platform to work together and to ensure that we achieve the goals that are set within our respective organizations. Hello Yaroslav, you are the coordinator of the WISIS process at the ITU International Telecommunications Union. We are the host and the lead organizer of the WISIS forum. So what vision do you see from here and what are the plans for next year? Even though the WISIS forum is coordinated by the ITU, this is a real demonstration of the whole United Nations system joining together the forces in order to strengthen the implementation at different levels and also strengthening their action on the ICT component within the delivery for the sustainable development goals. Our reference point is the 2030 development agenda which clearly states that we have to work together in order to provide to the world the concrete solutions and the ITU is one of those. ICTs is not anymore the challenge, it provides the concrete solutions for advancing and the sustainable development. This is the reason why we welcomed greatly and the initiatives at the regional level of all stakeholders connecting the dots and building the partnerships, creating the forests which are discussing and best practices and advancing the implementation and providing also for those who are unconnected, those which are not part of the information knowledge society, the concrete solutions for getting into our society. Therefore we are looking forward to 2018 as the new opportunity for the whole WISIS stakeholder community to join us in Geneva or join us also remotely. Just to underline, more than 100,000 stakeholders were following this event remotely and they were contributing also in this way to our discussions in order to result with the concrete outcome of this forum to be put forward in the UN system for the further decision making process. Thank you. Thank you, Yaroslav. As we have heard from the UN Action Line facilitators and from the heads of UN agencies earlier during the WISIS forum, we stand committed as the UN system to ensure that ICTs play a crucial enabling role for the achievement of the SDGs. Thank you very much for listening in and please do visit our website www.wisis.org. Thank you.