 Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2017 here in Busan, the Republic of Korea. I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today by Bazaar Imam, who's from NCTR in Sudan. Thank you very much for being with us in the studio. Thank you very much Max for having me. Now I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about this year's theme, its smart digital transformation and perhaps you could tell us what that means in Sudan. Well Max, it means a lot because actually there is huge pressure in Sudan on ministries and governmental unit by the government to digitally transform services by mid-2018. So yeah, I think it's very relevant and we participated this year based on that theme. Now your participation here, this is the second year you participated at ITU Telecom World? Yes, this is the second time and last year we were very fortunate to win an award and this year we are also happy to be in the finalist. So we'll be expecting an award in the ceremony in a couple of hours. That's great. And in terms of your experience here at ITU Telecom World, what's been the major draw for you here? Well, I think we have benefited a lot in terms of networking, in terms of business expansion. We are supposed to sign like three MOUs with counterparts here in Korea and it has been lovely so far so good for us. What are the main opportunities and challenges of this new smart digital age in Sudan? Well Sudan is a virgin market right now for such initiatives and we at NCTR are taking the lead actually. You can consider us as the technical arm of the government when it comes to implementing ICT initiatives and projects and we think this is the right place for us. It provides exposure and it provides experience and we'll take all that back to Sudan and implement what we can do and we'll make a difference definitely. In terms of connectivity, is that a major challenge for you? In Sudan you mean? Yeah, well it's a challenge and it's an opportunity as well and whenever there is a risk there is also an opportunity. So we would like to look at it this way always. What have been your impressions of the conversations that you've been hearing here at Telecom World? Yeah very positive. I think we are moving forward and as Africans we are pleased that next year it will be hosted in Africa. So this will be a great opportunity for all Africans. Now do you have a key message perhaps you'd like to impart to our audience here? Well I think we should all believe in what ICT can do. ICT can make a difference in the way we live, the way we interact with each other and I think ICT has solutions for at least many of our problems and we should believe in that definitely. Finally looking towards the future, how do you see smart digital age evolving? I think it's on the right track although we are a little bit behind in Africa but the drive is enormous there and people are looking forward to solutions and as I mentioned it's a virgin market there and luckily in countries like Sudan the use represents 70% of the population so the opportunity is always there. So micro and small medium-sized enterprises are they very much something that you're focusing on? Yeah definitely and we started from now thinking about what we are going to do for next year in 2018 and we are pondering starting from this moment about the project, the opportunities and the partnerships that we can build to bring to the ITU Telecom in 2018. We look forward to seeing you there. Thank you very much for being with us in the studio and we wish you the very best of luck over the next year. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you Max.