 Greetings from ITU headquarters in Geneva, where I'm very pleased to be joined by Seishi Tugawa, the chairman of ITUT Study Group 3, which looks at the economic and policy issues relevant to international communications. Mr Tugawa, thank you very much for joining us. It's my pleasure. Could you perhaps give our viewers a brief introduction to the history of Study Group 3 and how this work has evolved over the years? So everybody knows that ITU was founded in 1865, and at that moment the progress or development of the telegraph network was so significant in the European continent, and many countries had to negotiate bilaterally their settlement account, et cetera, but as the number of the countries who offered this telegraph service increased, it was very difficult to continue this bilateral agreement. So the founder of ITU got together, maybe in Paris, and decided to set up one international organization to settle not by bilaterally, but multinationally. And also in terms of Study Group 3, one of the main jobs is to assure the smooth operation of settlement account, et cetera, right now. So I'm totally sure, convinced that Study Group 3 inherits significantly the founder's dream to set up international organization like ITU. So I'm very proud to say that Study Group 3 is always trying to fulfill the founder's dream. Absolutely. And we've seen the financial dynamics of the ICT sector change very considerably in recent years with the shift to packet-based communications. How has this affected SG3's work? How does SG3 deal with these changes? Yes, of course, and to a certain period, our main job was to, as I said, how to settle very smoothly the international account on the settlement, et cetera, but because of the development of IP technology, our activities expanded significantly. And for example, during the last study period, we have spent a lot of time in setting up or coming up with recommendations about international roaming. So these two recommendations were really the first trial in the world to guide effectively the international roaming activities. So we are very proud to that achievement. That's excellent to hear. And I wonder who are the stakeholders that need to participate in Study Group 3? That's not a technical group in the way that other study groups are. Who comes together in Study Group 3 and how do they find common ground? It's a very good question. You know that in ITUT, we have 11 study groups, and among them, Study Group 3 is only one study group, which has economic and policy issues. And other study groups handle all technical issues. So it's only one study group, that's Study Group 3, handles that issue. So it's a presence, it's very, very unique. And we're seeing increasing participation from developing countries. In fact, developing countries have always been very interested in this work. What is the importance of SG3 to developing countries? Oh, yes. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that we, Study Group 3, created very early in the very long time ago, regional groups, and the beginning from Africa and Asia and Latin America and European countries and some Russian, the country close to Russian, etc. So with this presence of regional groups, we can find very easily the developments countries needs because these regional groups are located more closely to end users than parent group as Study Group 3. So with this presence, we know particularly the real need of the developing countries need. So I would like to emphasize the existence of regional groups. And perhaps as we as we close off, are there any other issues that you'll be dealing with over the next four years that perhaps you'd like to highlight? Yes. For example, we are now looking at many advanced technologies such as big data and digital identity, etc. So we have just started. We are now currently holding the first meeting of the SG3 and many views are expressed about handling those newly created issues. So we have still four years. So we are now in the process of getting the common image about those new technologies among Study Group 3. Mr. Tsugawa, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you very much indeed for having invited me to this interview. It was my real pleasure. Thank you very much.