 Welcome to WTDC 17 here in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I've got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio today by Jefferson Cuerda-Nacif, who is the head of International Affairs Office for Anatel in Brazil. Jefferson, thank you very much for joining us in the studio today. I appreciate my pleasure. Now, I'd like to start off by talking about the theme of this year's conference, WTDC 17, is ICT for SDGs. What are regulators, in what way basically are regulators contributing to the integration of ICTs into national development plans? First it must be said that ICTs and the themes that were, the themes are quite appropriate. We are writing a momentum to explore the SDGs after the approval of the United Nations General Assembly. So it's up to ITU to devote all the efforts so that we can reach an agreement on how ITU can definitely deal with this important issue approved in the UN. And regarding the regulators, we must work together with policy makers and the ministries in our countries so that we can reach agreements on how can we definitely and effectively implement SDGs, which are extremely important. Every and each one, we have different responsibilities in Brazil, just like many other countries, as regulators we are responsible for executing, for implementation of public policies. And it's up for the ministries and Congress to design the public policies for telecommunications. So it's up to us to coordinate in a very effective manner and definitely reach the sustainable development goals. Now we've got obviously high ambitions to ensure that connectivity reaches the next billion. What policy and regulatory measures do you think need to be put into place for that? Well, this is very important, it was quite, every time we tried to connect another billion, I remember when we were discussing almost 10 years ago how could we connect the first billion, then we had to connect the second billion and now we want to connect everyone, which is quite a challenge. Although the challenges that we face may be connecting the first or the second billion, it would be easier since the more you try to connect the other billions, the more difficult it is because there are many people now that we want to connect that are living in very isolated areas or in a very poor situation. So it represents really a quite challenge for regulators and for the private sector as a whole. For instance, in Brazil we are trying to manage this in this following way. We have universal plans and then we, as government, we demand private sector in the concession terms or in the licensure terms to cover areas that are underserved. That was extremely and has been implemented as an important policy for Brazil otherwise it would be quite difficult for private sector by itself to reach those areas and there are many mechanisms in which you can use. You can use for instance tax and fiscal exemptions that will be one way. The other way would be fostering all the benefits so that private sector can reach there or reducing equipments, for instance, leveraging taxes for equipments. That's another way. There are many ways in which the private sector and regulators and policy makers can work together so that we can reach all the billions, all the billions of people. Now we're seeing a rapid evolution of the ICT sector. We have artificial intelligence, cloud computing, internet of things. Do you think that regulators are moving fast enough to accommodate these changes? I can say that we are trying, although it's quite difficult for anyone to keep up with so many disruptive technology. What we are living today is a revolution inside the revolution, artificial intelligence, IOT, they all represent many challenges for regulators and for the market. The market is going extremely in a rapid pace. It's quite difficult for regulators and policy makers to implement regulations for technologies. What we try in Brazil, and that's usual for the regulators not, and it's quite wise doing this way is not trying to regulate technologies, otherwise you can make artificial impediments for the development and for the creation of other services. It's quite important for us to keep this in mind. Let's not try to regulate technology otherwise. We would be very obsolete in a very fast way, but there are many other important issues that we as regulators, we must work with. For instance, how these technologies are affecting privacy, how these technologies are affecting data protection and consumer interests. So if technology is quite difficult to regulate, we must at least think on the impacts of those technologies in those three areas that I mentioned. Now I can confidently say you're a familiar face here at ITU events and conferences. What do you hope will come from this particular one? Good. Well, the ITU double TDC is a very, very important conference. It's important because it's a way in which, at the moment, in which we can express to ITU and to other countries what are our expectations regarding the corporation, regarding exchange of information in study groups or many other important events of ITU. And we are here with very high expectations. Expectations that we can actually profit from an ITU conference in this corporation. So it's for regulators and for ministries, for everyone that's here, including the private sector, ITU represents really locus of this exchange of information. So it's amazing how we get together here. ITU has this, maybe it's the only way in the world in which we can find everyone, not only governments but also the private sector. And the exchange of information is quite valuable. We expect that WTDC continue in this track, that the study groups and the other conferences and meetings of ITU continue in this way in a very important place for us to meet. Well, thank you very much for joining us here in Buenos Aires and we look forward to catching up with you again sometime in the future. Yes, sure. Thank you very much for opportunity. Thank you.