 Welcome to the WSIS Forum 2017. My guest is Dominic Vergine, head of sustainability at ARM. Dominic, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Good morning. So Dominic, your company has been working very closely with UN agencies over the past few years. Can you tell us about your work to basically use technology to enhance and speed up the delivery of SDGs? Yes. We've been working with UNICEF. We did a program with them called Wearables for Good about how you might shift perceptions on wearables from being lifestyle accessories to life-saving products. And that was a very successful partnership. And so we then looked to see who else we could work with and began working with WHO and now with starting with FAO and UN Global Compact. So we're working really across the UN system. And our interest is how can technology support all 17 goals? Technology is a tool and it shouldn't be seen in isolation. It should be seen in the context of all the different global challenges and how it can underpin it. So as a result, we created a new initiative called 2030 Vision, which will be launching this December in London. That's in partnership with numerous UN agencies, NGOs, universities. And what we're trying to do is look at the challenges through the lens of the business sectors that relate to it. So agriculture, retail, logistics, pharmaceuticals, and see what they are looking out to 2030 in their digital vision, their hopes for technology, and then trying to see how we can help support and underpin that. So very much shifting things around a little so that it's not technology-centric. It's actually really focused on needs and incredible business opportunities within the goals as well. And there again, technology is not an end in itself. It's a tool isn't it? Exactly, exactly right. So to make it demand-driven is very, very important. If you think about something like the smart city, to truly create a smart city will require unprecedented levels of collaboration across sectors and government departments and industries that traditionally haven't worked together, haven't collaborated. So we need to move into a time where these traditional silos start crumbling and it's no longer unusual for a semiconductor design company like ARM to partner with an organization like UNICEF or for us to work with a company in food and beverage because we'll need to do that in order to create the right new technologies to achieve the goals. And what can you tell us about this partnership with ITU and the World Health Organization? It's called Be Healthy, Be Mobile. So can you expand a bit further? So Be Healthy, Be Mobile is an initiative that WHO and ITU set up really in order to bring in a number of partners to look at technology in healthcare, so digital health. We've just recently joined and one of the reasons why we've joined is we've been supporting a number of start-ups and new innovations in health for a while and we wanted to see which of them might be right for scaling up. So some of them are already reaching several hundred thousand people and we've got a lot of data to show the effectiveness of these technologies but we wanted to find a partner who could really take them to national scale and move from helping hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions and WHO have now looked at the different initiatives that we've been supporting and have selected a couple that they think are suitable for scaling up and the first being a technology that focuses on behavior change in some of the poorest communities in the world. Could you give us a specific example of how mobile technology can help enhance people's health? Yes, so it's not just mobile, so actually the name Be Healthy, Be Mobile I think it's evolving beyond that now and if you look at some of the poorest communities you need to be quite flexible over whether you have or haven't got connectivity. So we have to drive the costs right down and create technology that is suitable for users that may be illiterate or semi-literate subsistence farmers. The impact that it can have can be really profound so this particular program uses content in local languages and it might be things like the kind of advice a midwife would give but of course these communities don't have access to a midwife to these services or it might be advice on the crops that they would be growing specific to the area and in some instances the villages using this technology have seen a 50% increase in crop yield. If you're a subsistence farmer that's a very profound increase to your family income and that increase in income means that you might be able to send more of your children to school that you can afford better health care and it can really help lift people out of poverty. So the results are there to be seen what kind of feedback are you getting from the communities using your technology or your programs? Well it's very gratifying to see that and it's good to see some examples of how the communities are benefiting that aren't anything to do with the program so in some areas there are farming awards and we've seen that the vast majority of farmers winning the local farming awards are users of the technology so it's evident that it's helping their livelihoods and they're getting recognition in the community for actually performing really well so there's a lot of data coming out now to show how effective it is and as we scale up we'll get more and more and we'll also be able to tailor things so we also get data back to say actually this particular aspect isn't working for some reason and then we can go in and have a look at it and adjust it until it starts having the positive effect we're looking for. Well last of things thanks to big data the internet of things you can actually quickly readjust if you have to. Yes exactly right. Dominique thank you very much. Thank you.