 Welcome to WSIS Forum 2018. I am delighted to be joined by Mr Mark Fuhrer, who is the former director of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications, OFCOM, and ex-president of the FCC. Mr Fuhrer, thank you very much for joining us. Sure. So, you have been involved with WSIS from the start, haven't you? Tell us about the beginnings of the event. Yes, the beginning was in Marrakech at the plenary of the ITU in 1998, when there was a suggestion of some countries to do such a summit. And I must say at the beginning the enthusiasm wasn't very great, certainly not with ITU. The secretary general at the time, when he was accepted and said, yes, we should do that in 2003, he was far from very amused about this idea, because ITU saw itself very much as a technical organization and, of course, information society has a lot to do with, as the name says, with society with social questions, political questions, and so on. And, obviously, they could see that it would be a hard process, a difficult process. Nevertheless, we started it. It was an uphill struggle, but I had the honour and the pleasure to chair this preparation, you know, you can imagine, freedom of expression, ICT for development, regulation of internet or not regulation of internet, all these topics, there were heated discussions and I had to lead that all into one package of action plan. At the end, we achieved and, yeah, so it's nice to look back 15 years ago. And what about the future? Well, what about the future? I mean, the question is, of course, what has been achieved through this process? And I think what is the name already says, it's a process. And I'm very, very proud and delighted what happened, because many people said, well, we'll have this summit and then nobody speaks about it anymore. And thank God, this is not the case. I was just at the Internet Governance Forum last November, and I was impressed all these stakeholders, civil societies, discussing this topic, this topic, so many people. So it is a debate, it is a huge process in the whole world with all branches, still very much controversial, obviously, that's part of the thing. But I think that is the very positive thing. Also, here was this forum, you know, that this is a process, that this is an ongoing process. You can't expect quick results, there will be never quick results, ICT for development. There is, unfortunately, always a digital divide, but it's the aim to discuss how can we breach this divide, how can we, for example, free media. We all know that in many, many parts of the world, the media is not free, the press free speech is not granted. It's not even better than in 2003, unfortunately. But still, this is something which has to be discussed and has to be also finger pointed and say, why is it not? And especially with the Internet, a free expression, free speech is the core of the Internet and that we still have to achieve. So it's still a lot of work to do, but it's important to keep the momentum going, isn't it? Oh, absolutely. And I think that's the thing. Of course, what is working very well is where this ICT as a tool, as a means, has economic advantage. E-business is going very well. Google has developed, which has fantastic possibilities. I mean, I'm using Google every day, several times. Facebook, all these things. So the communication has been improved through these things. But of course, there's also much money, as we all know, involved. So in this thing, it's going very, very fast and very well. Where we have problems is in the universal service, questions like e-hels, questions like democracy, of course, but also a question of development, you know, how to achieve the millennium goals at the time and now the sustainable development goals. I mean, that is probably something where you don't earn much money. And that's where politics and also the engagement of the people involved here should show. Mr. Mark Furrow, thank you very much. Okay. Pleasure.