 Welcome to the ITU studio in Shamal Sheikh in Egypt, where we're here for the Radio Communication Assembly and also the World Radio Communication Conference 2019. And I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Karim Abdelgani, who is the Programme Coordinator for the Regional Office for ITU in Egypt. Welcome to the studio Karim. Thank you very much. Happy to be with you. Now let's talk a little bit about what's been going on here in the region itself. I know that you've got a few interesting programmes that have been happening. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about them. Thank you very much. So the Arab Regional Office, as you know, is a small office in size. We have some very motivated staff, around 10 people in the office. But we cover a wide array of areas. So we cover areas that are related to cyber security, digital financial inclusion, ICT applications and numerous areas that are assisting countries around the region to create enabling environments around those areas. So as you can imagine, the Arab region consists of around 22 Arab countries. Six of them are around our least developing countries, plus Palestine. We have around four countries that are countries in transition. So there are a lot of developmental issues that we have to tackle using ICTs. So we're happy to be here in the region and work with our partners in the region to meet all those other needs. What are some of those programmes covering? So for example, we are working with the World Bank and the Bin Amin, the Gates Foundation, on financial inclusion. So specifically, the financial inclusion global initiative in the Arab region were assisting Egypt to create an enabling environment in that area. On the issue of financial, sorry, the issue of digital inclusion, we're working with UNESCO to work with all partners in the region to organise something called Digital Inclusion Week, where we call upon stakeholders across the region to organise activities and raise awareness about issues related to digital inclusion in their countries. So we were able to organise around 16 events with 16 partners in the Digital Inclusion Week that spanned the last week of September. On the issue of eHealth, for example, we're working with the WHO on projects related to non-communicable diseases. So we have a project on mobile health. There's a global initiative called eHealth and bMobile and in the Arab region we were able to launch three projects in Egypt, Sudan and Tunisia. And we have numerous other activities, so we're happy to explain more about that if the time permits. So in principle here, the WRC is going to be attracting something, I'm coming back to this conference here, it's going to be attracting something like 3,000 people all around the world from over 150 countries, I understand. How important is it to the region to be hosting a conference such as this? Well, actually the fact that the WRC is hosted in Egypt is a big testament about not just the status of the ICT sector in Egypt, but also in the Arab region. You may recall that last year as well the Plenty Potential Conference was hosted in Dubai. So two big ITU conferences hosted in the Arab region is a huge testament to how far along the ICT sector came in this region. So this specific WRC comes into critical importance for the Arab region specifically and the world, as the world starts to embark on deploying 5G technologies in the near future. So one of the main issues that we tackle this year is our issues related to 5G spectrum, which will hopefully pave the way for deploying it across the region in the near future. And finally, just in general, is the region then optimistic very much about the outcomes of this conference and about digital connectivity in general? Very much so, I would say that. You can sense that by, first of all, the level of participation of the Arab delegations in this conference and the fact that they're engaged in all the discussions with the rest of the world. So I would say that I think they have high hopes for the conference and high hopes of the impact of the conference on the region. Well, Karim, thank you very much for joining us in the studio and I'm sure we'll catch up with you again at some stage in the near future about all these wonderful projects that you'll be telling us about. Thank you very much. Thank you.