 Thank you Excellencies ladies gentlemen dear friends and colleagues It is my pleasure to join you for this timely discussion on artificial Intelligent and road safety as we deliberate on international standard and frameworks for driving digital transformation to deliver on the sustainable development goals as Many of you know last year We embarked on the second decade of action for road safety We have recommitted ourself to achieving ambitious targets to help road deaths and injuries and provide safe affordable accessible and sustainable transport for all by 2030 We also launched the AI for road safety initiative last October in partner with I partnership with ITU The UN envion technology UN EC and the other road safety partners It came to support the implementation of the global plan of action for the decade of action for road safety towards our global goals Digital technologies and artificial intelligence are embedded in nearly every aspect of our daily lives The untapped opportunity to harness AI connectivity and other digital technologies to close the digital and road safety Divided worldwide is absolutely huge Studies have found that AI could act as an enabler on 79% of the 169 SDG targets It allows us to better access basic services health care and mobility and this is especially important for low and middle income countries it allows us as the opportunity to make all transport modes safer cleaner smarter and Above all more efficient Take the simple example of mobile device and the range of road safety benefits. We could enjoy if properly armist better road safety data predictability of crashes prevention of congestions speedy post-crash response and more use of green mobility amongst others data show that in 2019 5.2 billion people subscribe to mobile services Accounting for 67% of the global population We can dream of the possibilities Today when we discuss advancing standard for bridging the road safety gaps I implore you to focus on those what that can have the greatest impact on the most vulnerable populations It is in these locations where we must see a rapid improvement for progress on the SDGs Achieving the SDG targets will require equitable access to data and ethical use of AI Algorithm to identify or implement road safety solutions. I Do believe full exploitation of artificial intelligence and technology can help transform road safety for the better And I take this opportunity to thank my friend ITU and all the partners for your commitment to the infinite opportunities that is Absolutely needed and I look forward to growing this initiative to help realize AI and technology as catalyst for achieving our 2030 road safety targets and Eventually towards vision zero. I wish you a good meeting and I thank you