 Welcome to the ITU Plenty Potentiary Conference 2018 here in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Mr. Joao Cadete Dematis who is chairman of Anacom. Welcome to the studio. Nice to meet you and thank you for your invitation. Now I'd like to start off by asking you, there is current considerable attention being placed on harnessing the power of information and communication technologies, ICTs, for good. What is Anacom's position on this? We have no doubts about the relevance of information and telecommunications technologies for the development of our societies today. Indeed we cannot envisage the development of an economy, of a country, a region without good communications and when we talk about good communications we talk about also a good digital literacy and of course that the telecommunications operators are providing good communications to all the regions so to all the countries even to the remote areas. This is crucial for the economic and social development. Now this Plenty Potentiary Conference is the first one since the world agreed on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Perhaps you could provide us some examples of how ICTs are helping to drive sustainable development in Portugal. Yes, perhaps two main examples. One is coming from our experience with the several Iceland's. We have in Azores and in Medeira that belongs to the most peripheral areas in Europe and in my country and indeed in the case of Iceland's it's crucial to ensure the cohesion with the continental area and telecommunications are fundamental to provide these platforms that are needed for the development of these regions. In the case of Iceland as you know the submarine cables are the most important aspect of course they should be complemented by the satellite communications but in both cases and mainly in the case of submarine cables they are growing around the world and providing good connections between the different continents and also in the case of our country with the Iceland. So this is an example where we cannot prepare the future of the people living in these regions without good communications and providing good conditions for the companies to provide good telecommunications. So this is the first example. A second example that is also connected with the development of the remote areas. In my country as it happened in many other countries during the last decades we observed a movement of people migrations of people to the main cities looking for jobs but we need to maintain people in the different regions and from this point of view we cannot have jobs we cannot have investment we cannot have quality of life even people studying at universities and different levels of school without providing good access to internet and a good development for the digital world. So this is a second priority that I can give from our example is to allow this kind of development that is crucial for all the territory it was the case of Iceland that I mentioned before but also to the people living far from the main cities. And it's coming back to that in terms of the internet about half the world's peoples are now connected to the internet but the other half are not. I wanted to find out what Portugal is doing to ensure that the rest are connected. Yes from this point of view it's important today that fiber is going to all the places so we create from the regulatory point of view the better conditions to ensure that there are cases of co-investment that is a way to reduce the costs the total costs of the investments but also to ensure the sharing of the different networks that are required to provide the internet access to all the people. So we are doing all we can according to the regulatory powers in order to ensure that every people in all the country even in small village they are able to have access to internet. This is crucial to maintain people in these regions and to maintain a sustainable development of the economy and of the society globally considered. Finally I just wanted to find out what's your message for participants here at the ITU Penny Potentiary Conference. My main message to all the participants is that we should profit this occasion to share experience to know what its country and all the participants are doing to improve the communications we can benefit from sharing experience. I would like to congratulate ITU the United Arab Emirates and Dubai for the excellent organization this was an excellent framework to organize bilateral meetings and during the discussions we are having during these days we had the opportunity to learn and to share experience and to have a connected word connected countries connected continents is crucial for the development of our world. So congratulations and thank you for your invitation. Thank you very much indeed. Great thank you.