 Ruben, I think you have the mic not open. Apologies for that. I think I thought that. OK, so good evening, good afternoon, good morning. Depending on wherever you're coming from, welcome to this amazing station. And I know I'm pretty sure I'm very much confident that you're going to enjoy it because we actually have amazing speakers that are actually coming from the OTCs. But at the same time, it's also fitting into the Equus of Youth Forum, which is also an amazing forum that is actually happening. And this is another amazing side event. So just probably just to go into the session quickly, without wasting much of the time, I'd like probably to welcome you all to the Generation Connect, which is a theme Generation Connect youth leading digital transformation in OTC5, in OTCs. And my name is Ruben Sapetulu. I'm also a youth activist, but at the same time, I'm working for the United Nations Youth Association of Zambia. And I'm engaged in quite a number of things as well. And for today's session, it is actually organized by Generation Connect, the overarching initiative of the ITU, which is the United Nations Agency for ICT Youth Strategy. For those of you that might be thinking, to say, OK, fine, what about the Generation Connect? What does it aim at actually? So the Generation Connect aims to engage global youth and as well as encourage their participation as equal partners alongside the leaders of today's digital change, empowering young people with their skills and opportunities to advance their vision of a connected future. Building on a future, on a Generation Connect is recent participation in the OTC5 youth forum and youth track in conversation hems to my right. I like the role of young people at the forefront of SDG implementation and digital transformation in OTCs. The SDG thematic focus of this session is SDG9, which pretty much focuses on industry, innovation, and infrastructure. Firstly, we will have some opening remarks. Then we'll have two short presentations to provide some context before we dive into an interactive panel session, of which I have quite amazing speakers, which I think you're going to attest to. Then after that, we'll continue with the session. But please note that the session is being live streamed and it will be, I think, archived and made available on Generation Connect social media channels after the session. And then we have a great session today, like I've actually alluded to. So let's start off with open remarks by Marco Opiso, who is actually the head of the cybersecurity division and acting chief of the digital network security department. So I think let's welcome Marco. Thank you. Marco, over to you. Thanks, Ruben. And hello, everyone, from where you are. It's really great to be here with you today. And you saved some of my time, Ruben, because you explained already what the Generation Connect is, which is really good. So I'm not going to rate the rate. Maybe I can give a couple of insight and a couple of data points of why we are here and why the Generation Connect is something that we consider extremely important. So I hope and I guess that all of you know the ITU, the International Telecommunication Union, and as, of course, part of the UN system, as a specialized agency, our main focus is really to try to make an attempt that to succeed eventually on HIV universal and meaningful connectivity. We still have 2.5 billion people who are currently offline. So 2.5 billion people that don't have at all access to internet, which, of course, include youth. And that is where the Generation Connect kicks in. That is where we are trying to build the movement globally to engage the youth as part of the global community that are not yet connected. And at the same time, generate opportunities. So we launched Generation Connect in 2020. And we have engaged digitally. We have consulted. We have co-designed with young people. We have tried to build really this kind of massive awareness on why digital is important and what are the opportunities that can come out from the digital landscape. So from that, I guess it's very easy to articulate what is the progress statement here. On the positive side, we still have a massive, a critical mass of young people that are still driving. It is still driving force, still driving the connectivity globally. So we have 75% of the youth age from 15 to 24 years old that are online compared to the 65% of the rest of the world population. So that's a positive note because, of course, young people are much more and I'm not considering anymore myself a young, but maybe I'm in the middle, but anyway. So they are really the driving force. They really try to exploit as much as possible digital. However, there is a completely unbalanced situation in terms of who is connected. So this kind of connectivity is not uniform across the countries and the region. For example, 90% of the youth with access in Europe is actually the percentage there compared to the 50% by 5% in Africa, where almost the LDC are. So especially in LDCs, young people should be given real opportunities to lead and shape the digital future. So here is the big issue. While, of course, from one side, young people are the driving force, but there is really a big gap in terms of opportunities of the digital landscape. And that is where we want to focus our attention. You mentioned, Ruben, last month, Generation Connect two-part was featured in the LDC Five Youth Forum and Youth Track in Dauak. So within the overall LDC Five Generation Connect was featured prominently on the youth piece. And today's session, I guess, as you indicated, Ruben, we really want to build on that and export in the experience from the LDC Five Young delegates, which are here, and to know more about the work and to try really to capitalize on all these big events that you want to nation-organize. You know that, again, to have and to enable a bit the digital environment for youth and to thrive and prosper. And that is really the core work. So the overall idea here is really to generate real impact in the lives of young people around the world and ensuring that meaningful connectivity and their meaningful participation as kids they call that in the implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. And we do this always as a co-creation and as a kind of a structural process where the youth is not only participating but it's basically a key player. So now the question is how we can really put youth at the forefront and how we can really exploit this massive asset that we have in order for you to create this kind of enabling environment. There are a few things here. Safe access to the internet, sustainable digital infrastructure, affordable devices and data costs. All these are big enablers that could drive innovation and the digital empowerment of young people all over the world. They should be given really the real opportunities to lead and shape our shared digital future. So with this little thinking and little thoughts I really look forward to hear the contribution that are coming from all of you today. I really congratulate all of you on the impact you're already making because we managed to build a big community. And of course, to NOLA is our, let's say, big and you know, let's say, valuable, significant ambassador here. So I encourage everyone to join Generation Connect and with that I'll come back to you and thanks a lot for the opportunities. Wow, wow, that was really amazing. And I've actually picked a number of issues that our carriers might take away points of action. And it's good that you also pointed to the fact that we as young people need actually to be given real opportunities to lead and shape the digital media and also just the digital world itself. And it's really, really amazing to also look at the fact that we're being considered as stakeholders and not passive recipients, which is really, really amazing. Okay, so we move further and without wasting much of the time we're now going to the next section. And this segment pretty much aims to give context to the digital transformation in our disease. And with this one, we're just going to pretty much understand what it means and why it matters in relation to El Kosoq. So I've got an amazing delegate with me called Barakat. And she's going to share a digital leadership journey and what it means to her as a senior product designer and member of the Children and Youth Advisory Board of ITU's protection through online participation initiative. So Barakat, over to you. Hello, thank you, Ruben. Hello, everyone. I will move a lot for Barakat, but as Ruben said, I was picking on digital leadership. But just before that I would like to talk with you about digital transformation because that is what brings us to those digital leadership. So digital transformation is a process that involves the use of digital tools, technologies to streamline operations and improve our standard of living. And we have technologies there such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, UIUX design among others. And digital transformation really matters because it contributes significantly to all the performance of every SDG from Go1 to 17, no poverty, quality education among others. The challenges that there in digital transformation, we have challenges like a skills gap and talent shortage, legacy system and costs. And the solutions that exist there is like provision of digital innovation ops, support for women and youths, bringing more people like more enlightenment program, education and screening. That's that old digital transformation. So now I'd like to talk about my digital leadership journey. I've been on a digital leadership journey that has changed my perspective on technology and it's impacting society. Why growing up? I would just like to bring in this scenario. I wanted to be a pilot and over time, I got administrative investing to study plan biology and I have a base in plan biology. At that time, I did not have the adequate information. I bought what I wanted to do because it's a super that decided for me, oh, you'll be good at this, you'll be good at that. And I also like give to them and apply for those courses in the university. Over after my university education, I started like on a quest for monolithic staff. How can I solve these experiments for grants and businesses? And that also brought me about into product design. I started taking and learning courses online. I'm just from there that I got removed from job and started learning about product design. But I still had some challenges while learning challenges such as bad laptop because the laptop I had had battery issues and stuff like that. And we have like power supply issues. I was unable to like even go to a nearby home to charge my laptop or to even access the internet. So these were challenges that I faced by trying to learn. And I was able to somehow see it. From there, I got a job as an intern from a full-time product designer then to the head of product design at Ushiteq where I currently live. So these challenges are there. And we have several of these challenges and also there are consequences that they... My role as a member of the ITU has given me the knowledge to actually know and know about the impact of the internet on children, the social biases that we have out there and how we can work to address this. And also as a product designer, I've come to learn over time that this... So this digital leadership journey is a lifelong process of learning and we must continue to like learn and work hand in hand to bring more people into tech. We must actually... To bring more people into tech, we must... The challenge is that some of us are faced, we need people to also look into this like provision of laptops for people. Enlightenment program for people. We have some people that are just like... Maybe want to enter the investor. So there should be adequate provision of this in place. And also the problem is looking into this to include the quality of life of people. In summary, I would say that to address the unique challenges and opportunities in this part of the world, things that have highlighted like provision of laptops, enlightenment programs, provision of ops, we increase the quality of living and we allow more people to venture into tech to know more about tech. So it's a solution or it's a risk against them to actually start with you. It starts with almost everyone on the call. Thank you. Wow. Wow. Amazing. And we are actually drawing some inspirations from there. Thank you so much. So I think before I proceed to the... To my next speaker, for the participants that are actually joining online, if you have any question or rather... There's the Q and A section where you can actually put your questions and then be able to pick it up so that our panelists can actually get to know the questions you've actually asked. Okay. So we proceed. And the next speaker that I have is an amazing one as well. We have Amel. She's pretty much going to explain what digital leadership means for those of us who are actually asking what it means. So she's going to explain what it means to her. As a STEM leader from Comeros, alighting also a person next in this area as well. Over to you. Yes. Can you hear me? Yes. I can hear you though. Your internet is kind of like a little bit unstable. I'm so sure. Okay. So as Amel is working on... Okay. Great. Please talk. Okay. Amel. I'm Amel. I'm Amel. I'm Amel. I'm Amel from Comeros Island. Can you hear me? Okay. We can hear you now. It was breaking, but I think it's a little bit clear now. Yeah. Maybe I'll turn off the video. Maybe it's going to help. Yeah. Much better. Okay. It's fine. Thank you. I'm Amel from Comeros Island. I'm a youth educational activist, but mainly focusing on the STEM education. So without further ado, we are going to jump on the question on digital leadership. For me, I would say digital leadership is a leadership that is inclusive and also that is applied to the human rights because we are living in a world of technology. When you are talking about digital, it's including technology. So for the technology to be accessible for everyone, it has to be inclusive. When we talk about inclusion, it's not really about one side, but to have all the group included, despite their religion, their race, and their gender. So for us to really align our activities and our life and the work we are doing, we have to make it inclusive and accessible for everyone. I could say that digital leadership, it's a leadership that is accessible and that is allowing everyone to have access to digital literacy, digital education, and so on. So talk about my journey and my experience into the digital field, I would say as a STEM educator. I grew up in Comeros, which is a very religious and conservative country. So I wanted to be an engineer from the beginning, but as a woman, my family refused so I couldn't pursue my career into engineering stuff. So I followed my path into languages and so on. But in 2017, when I joined the NGO that I'm working on, which is called Imara Comeros, we are invited by FESTA Global, which is an NGO that is working on promoting STEM education specifically to young people. So they reached out to us as Comeros was the only country that never participated in that program. But at that time we were not working in STEM area. So they said it won't be a problem, they're going to send us mentors to mentor us in order to focus on the STEM education. So it was from that that I really revealed my passion into the engineering stuff and STEM education and I started working into STEM, which has allowed us for the first time like young girls from the Moot areas in Comeros who participated in international robotics competition and who has also won a silver medal, who becomes second in front of big nation like USA and France. This is to say that we have to believe in our faith in the work we are doing. We may not achieve our dreams now, but it may come within the way if we keep working hard. This is to say that I didn't give up on my dream of working on the engineering side, but now that I find it myself working in that area and being like the mentor of the team Comeros or Robotic and also working with my NGO on teaching girls on scratch, initiating them on computer programming and building robots. So it's really showing that digital leadership is really important and for it to be available and to be accessible for everyone, we have to initiate young people, specifically girls into the STEM area from early age. Thank you very much. Wow. I have continued to gain inspiration. I'm enjoying this session. And again, I think we are now about to go to another important segment. And before I go again to that segment, I will still throw in the same appeal that I made recently about the way we can actually participate as participants. So there's the Q&A section where you can actually throw in your questions, and we'll be able to pick it up as well. So feel free to actually throw in there. And we've got different people that actually capture that inclusive of myself. As a moderator, I'll be able to also capture your submissions in that regard. So before I go into a quick round of questions for our panelists, I have three amazing panelists and as the name, as you can actually even see. So I have Irina, which is also an educator and an innovator. I'm also joined with Hamza. Hamza is a youth leader and an activist. I'm also joined by Uber. And we actually made in Qatar as an EODC-5 youth delegate, and it was quite an amazing moment. And I assure you that as you get to interact with these delegates, it's really, really an amazing moment. As we also get to actually discern from them. And then just quickly, I think diving into the question, since I can see Irina is already online and Hamza as well as Uber, I would actually throw a general question to all of you. And this question, just for you to tell us what meaningful connectivity for youth in EODCs look like, practically. So I'll start with Irina. Yeah. Hi everyone. I think we've been for that introduction. Telling a little bit more about myself. I graduated from Stanford University in the U.S. and I have been working in education sector to teach girls and minorities a STEM field also similar to Armel, where I teach them coding, also how to make different robots, code and so on. And also I have through digital connection, my organization called Nepali Women in Computing and my Instagram page where I create content for girls with using different tools because there is a lot of bias in it. So those are some of the things that I've been doing digitally. And coming back to the question Ruben about meaningful connection, especially in LDCs, I think that meaningful connection looks like when you come out of that experience you take away something from it. It could be new information, new connections, discussions or just some thought-provoking experience that makes you think deeper. For example, what is not a meaningful connection is just absorbing through social media. Though it is in digital space and especially in Nepal where I come from there are a lot of people who have access to mobile phones almost 70% of Nepalese and when they have internet in it their natural inclination is to go towards social media to TikTok, Facebook and so on. But they are not using it for information or education purposes and that is not meaningful at all. So I think that when it comes to meaningful connection for youth in LDCs it has to be something meaningful to come out of it and not just absorbing random things from the internet. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. And I will go to Hamza in a minute. Hamza. Thank you so much Rabin for the wonderful question and of course I do have to agree with Irina on what actually means to be connectivity means to her and especially the youth in Nepal and I think that reflects on a lot of youths in particular in the LDCs when it comes to connectivity and the one thing that I really want to mention is that 80% of the LDCs are not connected and they're not using internet per se and which actually it's very problematic issue when it comes to connectivity within the LDCs and during the LDCs I think if most of you guys remember one of the things that they are pushing forward is also to start online universities where of course is a very good thing for us as LDC youth to get that free education when it comes to online but again the issue of connectivity and 80% of the LDCs are not connected should be solved and of course this should be started from the grassroots level organizations to come and at least contribute at least to what they can in improving the connectivity of the nation especially with youth in schools and under the age of 18 connectivity for me and especially for the Somalis I think it presented to most of the countries where there's high level of connectivity when it comes to social media but this connectivity high level connectivity in social media are not used in a proper manner and this needs an awareness and advocacy now again to be taught to those young people on how to critically use and the connectivity of the internet they have into something which is knowledgeable for themselves amazing okay so we proceed again we go to Buber okay okay uh Buber we lost two are you two there uh Buber your microphone is on mute so um maybe you can unmute your microphone hello yes we can hear you now okay um okay um okay and the residents. So, talking about the connectivity of youth in the PMA, I want to tell myself that, just before the end of May, we need to ask ourselves the question of knowing that if today, you and I are able to communicate today, it is thanks to this same connection. So, this is because it is the safest in the world right now to be able to connect people and others in their essential work. So, if that is the case, we need to make it clear that connectivity is the least safe to be able to advance things in this world right now. And today, the countries that are developing today use the community, the community, as a right for the citizens. But for us, in our different countries, it has become a problem. We have difficulties to connect, not only to connect, but also we have difficulties to have access to the connection through the quality of the connection and even through the quality of the connection. Even today, I have difficulties to connect because I come from work, but through Androids, every time I cross, I have difficulties to hear you sometimes or even you have difficulties to hear me. Because we don't have quality in what we call the connection. So, it is a factor for the countries, the PMAs, to really invest to help us, the youth, to contribute to the development of the future of the respective countries. I want to thank you. Okay, thank you so much, Puba. And I got quite amazing submissions and I keep taking note of them. So, getting back to Hamza. Hamza, you pointed out quite good statistics, most especially when it comes to the LDCs and how probably 85% of them get not to be connected. So, to probably reach that digital gap, what are some of the activities that you are engaging yourself that you can actually share with our amazing audience that they can as well gain inspiration from that, just to see how best we can actually cover up from the digital divide that actually gets to be seen based on the statistics that you've given. Over to you, Hamza. Thank you so much, Robin. Of course, when it comes to the case of Somalia and when it comes to technology and utilization, we are very much behind than other LDC countries in Nepal or within Africa or within the Asia region because still our education system are not in line with the kind of acknowledgement that is supposed to be getting. Example, most of the... when it comes to the pandemic, the pandemic 2020 and 2021, most of the students did not have... their parents even didn't have Wi-Fi and they didn't have phones to get around to study. So, and the government cannot provide free tablets or phones because of the budget that is in system. So, a lot of people suggest an idea, especially an educationist and other youth organization like myself. We came up with a solution where when it comes to the capital, of course, those things can be provided very easily, but how about the rural areas? And this is where we had to go back to the old method of technology which is using radios in terms of giving classes to the students in the rural areas. And such an organization that now after the pandemic, things went very smoothly using those radios and the students with the capital were using their technologies and we had some donors, international donors who helped us with that. But again, after the pandemic, we thought about why not now we become more serious in having a platform where we raise issues on digitalization and technology and we improve from there on. So far we have been doing a lot in terms of training youths and how to use excels and normal computer classes in the certain rural areas. We have actually established a technology hub in Goroway, which is in the north of Somalia where we train youth to learn about computer classes which is free of cost and if it's other classes that are advanced that we give them sponsorship or funds from international partners for them to get their things done. But it's not something that we hope that we are going to be expanding more to the rest of the country but it's better than nothing I can say. Wow, wow. I can actually even just that I can't probably start clapping from here but I think I wish I had that option to do so. Okay. So to Irene as well, I think she mentioned quite amazing works that she's actually doing and I picked some coding that she's teaching young women as well as robotics if I didn't get it wrong and this is really, really amazing and maybe just to probably point out some of the issues that you pointed out concerning meaningful digital engagement. I just wanted just to understand how or what mechanisms or probably what innovation have you actually engaged in that is going to bridge that gap to ensure that young people accessing digital platforms are actually using them meaningfully but at the same time they're also not being just passive or observing the information from social media passively. What are some of the innovative ways that you're actually putting in place here? Yes. Thank you for the question Ruben. So definitely there is a problem that youth are inclined towards all these social media platforms and so on and that's not always bad and how we have been twisting it is promoting our work on social media as well for example the content that I create I posted on social media so that when youth and other get engaged in social media they're not only and it's just not me I think other people are also inclined towards social media to put their useful content so that people absorb that as well and in terms of digital space our organization we give different workshops digitally so that we can reach a lot more people that only in physical space which was in COVID times not possible in the first place but also coming from different parts of the world for example when I want to I am currently living in the United States and when I want to teach my students when I want to give workshops I'm able to do that digitally too so that was very important to be engaged digitally in that space and not just absorbing things randomly but giving them information and workshops of important things like how to enter the tech space for example or how to get to universities in the US we did a lot of those workshops so that the youth could be engaged meaningfully amazing, wow wow and I can see some clubs in the charts and allow me just to also mention again just to encourage our our participants if you've got any question that is either get it at Irina or Hamza or Boba please make sure that you actually throw it in the chat so that you'll be able to pick it up in the Q&A section okay so let me just dive directly to my last question for both I think Hamza, Irina and Boba so I'll start with you Irina just on your experience I know you've pointed part of it and you've actually spoken part of your work in digital leadership but maybe if there is anything that you felt that maybe it's really really important most especially in your experience as well as work in digital leadership in the hell of disease that maybe we can as well just learn from I think it could be actually very very important for you to bring it out, yeah yes I think one of the things that I'm doing that is very personal to me and that is very important is creating content around using tools by girls and especially in my country and I know it's still prevalent in other countries as well which is tools for example hammers all these like digital all these like power tools and hand tools are only for men and when women start using it they even get ridiculed or like they are straight up said that this is not for you and that has been my personal experience too but as an engineer I grew up using these tools and I want to create space for other girls and women too to feel that it is not intimidating and it is for girls and women too to use it so I create content in my Instagram and YouTube all these videos that I record content that I create of how to use these tools and what can be done to like fix things around the house which can also be done by women and girls and they don't need to feel that it is out of their space and when I post things there I have also received feedback from so many of girls and women that oh I've always wanted to do this but you know like it doesn't feel right in some ways and I feel really happy and privileged that I am able to inspire others through my platform yes thank you okay that's really amazing I'm actually getting a lot of inspiration I think I need to find ways and means of stealing part of your work as well okay so yes sorry I wanted to add I forgot to mention the Instagram handle is called girly tools you know like it's also for a girl yeah ah amazing okay so we jump to Hamza with the same question Hamza I just wanted to understand pretty much in depth the experiences of work that you actually have in digital leadership in LDCs I know you pointed part of it yes thank you so much I mean since being a youth activist I've never worked in digital transformation since last year I started actually doing it last year and what actually inspired me was seeing a lot of youth not having those benefits in being in the digitalized world and actually helping them as much as we can because most of the young people that I work with in technology hub or we call it T-Hub in Gorova Somalia is they are mostly graduated from abroad Somalis who are graduated from abroad and came back to their country and they have seen that there's lack of technology classes or at least helping those young people in integrating to digitalization world and we actually wanted to bring those gap close together so we started actually one year ago and we have been doing amazing work in Gorova it's not yet expanded through out of Somalia but it's now in Gorova in Galkaio some few cities in Somalia and what we are doing is actually giving classes on normal and basic online classes on computers now we are doing advanced classes on computers like Photoshop and other classes and especially for young girls who are based in Gorova which of course they're trying to be more more free when it comes to the culture young girls studying STEM I think Irene that topic she's more used to that girl standing STEMs especially in LDCs especially with the same cultures that we have it's very hard for them to get motivated and recognized what we're trying our best is for us to at least give them those kind of education for them and they'll at least inspire them to do more when they graduate from their primary or secondary school so it's something that we started very early last year and it actually has been going around in Somalia that young people are doing such programs for young Somalis across the north side of Somalia and I hope this kind of initiative can inspire others actually to start it doesn't matter how big you want to start but as long as you inspire one person and you educate one person I think that should be something that can motivate you to do more so that's it Robin. Okay thank you so much and actually taking note of quite powerful statements and apologies to but I think due to earlier connectivity issues won't be able to probably dive in and I think allow you to also exhaust your point however if you have like maybe a submission that you have to make in order for us to mitigate this problem you can actually throw it in the chat so that everyone will be able to see your submission that you got as well as responding to the same question that was actually thrown in and as we conclude with this segment I would just probably throw it back to our panelists because I do know when we get these inspirations and they like what is it that we have to take away and what is it that we need to go home with so I'll just throw it back to you probably just President or what you think young people should you know go away with that they have to go back and do when it comes to digital leadership but what role they can actually play in ensuring that these digital divides to ensure that everyone has got meaningful access to digital platforms so I'll start with you Irina and then we close with Hamza Ruben sorry you cut off a little bit in the middle I couldn't completely hear it actually ah okay which part did you hear I think I'll start from there which which part did you give me really I think about the like in the middle you cut off a little bit actually ah okay so I was saying after all this amazing work it would be important that the panelist or the participant that actually joining and to you know take something home that they have to I know they have gained the inspirations and they're like but what's the encouragement you know your closing remarks what's what's the encouragement to them on what they actually what role they have to play in ensuring that they actually break the digital divide and ensure that these meaningful accessibility digital platforms yeah so I'll start with you yeah yes so one thing to definitely take home is that everybody can become a leader in digital space or in physical space you don't have to be someone else to like become leaders or you don't have to wait to become digital leaders I think you can start small and and just start maybe teaching something if you have something in mind and if you want to go and do that it could be in digital space it could be in physical space um nothing is small to start with I would definitely say that nothing is small to start with in a digital space of course when you think of digital space you immediately think oh I don't have so and so many followers I don't have 10,000 followers or I don't have people who have on my social media page but it's about slowly building that up in digital space and becoming leader in your space great great and uh before I jump to Hamza I would again throw in there's a question in the chat box that I have to I think bring to your attention as you also brainstorming so that the moment that Hamza is going to be giving his remarks probably you'll also touch base on it as well as also allowing him to touch base on it so the question is coming from Tong New and the question is saying that digital leaders in health disease are not excessively elitist and represent more young people from those regions I'm going to repeat the question again how can we ensure that digital leaders in health disease are not excessively elitist and represent more young people from those regions so Irina as you are thinking through allow me to also throw it to Hamza so that it as well touch base on it as his remarks then come back as well yeah so Hamza yes Ruben and answering the previous question and I mean what what can we leave behind when it comes to digitalization and transformation in LDC especially Somalia one thing that but now recently growing in Somalia is a cyber bullying and sexual harassment through social media and a lot of young people are actually suffering from those kind of attacks within the community or within the Somalia here and I don't know if you guys have seen there's a lot of these issues that have been going on within the previous month and how we can stop those kind of issues and one thing that people are doing this because they don't have their advocacy and awareness on how to use the digital and how to use the technology in what sense is it safe for children in what sense is it harmful them and is for us now again to leave behind an awareness or advocacy where we we teach them on how to use it safely we teach them on how to avoid such issues and also encouraging and pushing the government on establishing a cyber security unit within the police force where they can people can report to if they have been bullied or if they have been their pictures or their videos have been leaked online where they can go and report so this kind of issues have been going on in Somalia and I think that unit will be gonna be formed soon but still we need to push on such an agenda forward okay great just the second one second one it's true we need more young people to be involved as much as we can to transform digital transformation in their own countries I mean when you start with Elysis of course it's good because they have the financial means to to go and speak and which is good you know when someone is has those financial capability to speak and go around and talk about digital and technology it's good because it actually helps to bring light what is happening in the country but of course I do also agree with the person who asked the question we need to motivate more young people in the grass roots to come on board and actually be part of the campaign in improving digitalization of their country so okay great so I allow Irina to also respond to that question and then I'll throw in our first two speakers to make those to be their closing remarks yes so Irina respond to that before I go to Amel yes I think it is a sad reality that those who are privileged those who have access to internet and phone or computer will only have only be able to represent in digital spaces and that is the sad reality of today and we are privileged enough to have this opportunity I think what we can do is not limit these opportunity to ourselves and give back the resources because even when even though you have these resources digitally sometimes you're not able to find them so those who have these opportunity these privileges should go back and give back to the grass roots and tell them to and if possible some organizations sometimes they have a little bit of budget to give internet access for the limitation of the program at least and also another thing is when these things are very new for the grass root people the computer the internet they are very intimidated to use these and that is from a first-hand experience when I used to teach people in the rural areas they were they have never seen a computer they have never done coding and they become very intimidated so I think it will be on us to make them feel more comfortable to these new opportunities for them as well yeah that is what I have to say wow okay that's great that's great so allow me also to throw Amel and Barakat in your closure so that we can actually close it with that I think you have one minute each to close probably end on time as stated yes let's start with Amel hello can you hear me yes we can hear you I'm really sorry I cannot turn on my camera network it's okay it's okay please can you repeat what was the question sorry yes so just a closing remark yeah yeah so that closing remark is pretty much directed to the young people what is it that they have to go what's the encouragement to the young people what should they go and play in the digital transformation yeah thank you very much for giving me the floor what I would encourage young people is that it true that we may not have accessibility to all the tools that are needed in order to bear work in technology but I do believe the tools we have on the ground we can turn them into another tools that is going to align within the technology we are we are using now so it's for me like to start with what they have for now like I would just give an example like when we were young we were making cars with like a can of tomato or a collect those kind of like it creates creativity with the kids so I think that the importance is to help the young people to grow up with that creativity that mindset of trying to build something new if like we have engineers today it's because they started from their early from their young ages to start thinking and working so for me to require young people it's not to stop doing the work they are doing because they don't have funding or they don't have tool they don't have computer and so on they can just use what they have which is something very special because they have the skills they have like the ambition to want to change and to want to inspire others and also to use the tools on the ground to keep working hard because it's really impacted even though we are not seeing the results now thank you okay thank you so much I was going to cut you but it's good that you actually hit yourself for those remarks Barakat within a minute 30 seconds you can just pick what I appreciate Barakat over to you okay Barak yes yeah please proceed okay I would say between us young people we can also like promote digital education within ourselves and also organize like our new program for people that do not know about technology conduct awareness programs and effort to highlight the importance of reuse in the representation of youth representation in digital leadership positions just to create supportive environments and generate momentum for change and also organize programs around digital literacy providing programs for young people that are to promote digital education between the upcoming generation be a great impact to you thank you okay thank you so much and thank you so much for the all speakers that have actually actively participated I can see the comments that are actually coming in the group and people are agreeing with the speakers and it's really really amazing to hear and catch to listen to these amazing amazing panelists that have actually had today so and to our amazing audience I think so amazing and I thank you so much also for your active participation for those of you that have also managed to also throw in one or two questions we greatly appreciate the engagement that we've actually done and just the last one is just the call to action we just invite you to get involved with the Generation Connect and at this point in time I'll just ask our support team to probably force for a group photo as we allow we can manage to I know others don't have the provision to you know probably open their videos but I think to our speakers I would allow us to open our videos so that we can get a group photo together but for now thank you so much and I've been your moderator Ruben's subject Ruben thank you so their participants hello again so now we are about to take a group picture please you can help me with your smile I will count from 3 until 1 and be ready please 3, 2, 1 smile I will take one more please just to be sure that we have a good one 1, 2, 3 smile great it's a great picture thank you very much thank you ok thank you thank you everyone thank you Ruben and Danola thank you thank you recording stopped thank you so much and bye everyone bye