 Welcome to the World Ready Communication Conference 2023 here in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where I've got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio by Salwa Suleiman Kamil, who is the Vice-Chair of COM3, Spectrum Engineer as well and National for the National Communications Authority of South Sudan. So Salwa, welcome to the studio. Thank you Max, thanks you for having me here. Now, I wanted to ask you, this conference is an important event in ITU's calendar. Why is it an important event for you, the World Ready Communication Conference here in Dubai? Well, WRC is the only event where worlds comes together to discuss the future and the current radio resources and to allocate these resources to the services. Could you tell us a little bit about your work as Vice-Chair of the WRC 23 Committee 3? Yes, I'm representing ITU as Vice-Chair with my colleagues from the African Telecommunication Union. I'm in committee 3, which is responsible for budget control. So the work basically is to examine the budget of the conference and assess the financial implication of the conference. There's been a big push for a number of years now to increase the participation of women at the World Ready Communication Conference. How successful do you think that's been? I think we all witnessed the adoption of the gender resolution during the conference, which advocating for equal rights for the women in the leadership at the ITU level. This will not only remain at the ITU level, it will go up to regional, even national level. And the network of women, I mean, do you think that's helped? Yes, it helped a lot. I participated in the Network of Women during the past cycle, WRC 19. I can say I'm the graduate from the Network of Women. You said you've been the National Communications Authority for about seven years now. Yes. I will ask you, in terms of female participation in technological positions in South Sudan, is there a big push as well to achieve gender parity there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. My leadership is working hard to close that gender gap in the leadership. So, at my institution level, we are working with the local initiatives, such as Girls in ICT and then other local initiatives to bring more ladies to ISTEM. Excellent. And what impact do you think the outcomes of this conference will have for the future of radio communications? I think for South Sudan, as a new member state in ITU, it's very important as during the past cycle, we got an orbiter slot for this first time. So, it's very important for us as a new member to continue having that support from ITU. And what the outcome I can say is the future satellite communication to close the gap of communication and the rural connectivity so that to bring more people connected. You've been involved in communications for a fair few years now. I wanted to ask you, how has the landscape changed in South Sudan and do you feel optimistic for the future of radio and telecommunications in South Sudan? Yeah, I can see the difference now. People are going more digitally, I can say. So, I'm optimistic that the change will be great. Selwa Suleiman Kamil, thank you so much for joining us in the studio. Thank you for being at this conference and thank you for the job that you're doing as Vice-Chair of COM3. And we look forward to catching up with you again at some stage in the not too distant future. Thank you very much. Looking forward to also be here again. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you. And if you've enjoyed this interview then do check out our other interviews on our YouTube channel as well as our podcasts on our podcast channel South Cloud Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts. And for further information, do visit our website at www.itu.int. Thank you for tuning in.