 We're here at the World Conference for International Telecommunications or WICIT 2012 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and I'm very pleased to be joined by Sebastián Belagamba, who is the regional director for the Internet Society for the Latin America and Caribbean region. Sebastián, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you. I'd like to start off by asking you about the Internet Society and really what it's involved with and what it does. Well, the Internet Society is an international non-for-profit, non-governmental organization which was created 20 years ago. We are celebrating our 20th anniversary this year, which in Internet terms is a really long time. We basically are in the business of promoting the Internet. We consider the Internet is for everyone and our mission is to promote the open use and evolution of the Internet to the benefit of all people around the world. Obviously a lot is being talked about the Internet at the moment. What are your initial impressions here of the conference? The conference is really good, it's a very interesting conference. It's something that does not happen very often, so the multiple issues that has to be addressed are very, very interesting. What is the present situation with regards to Internet in the Latin America and Caribbean region? Well, we are doing well, but not that well. The current Internet penetration rate would be around 40% in Latin America and in the Caribbean average. The problem is that it is an average, so that means that certain countries are lagging behind big times, so we have to work for that. As we always say, we have a 40% penetration in Latin America, which is good. No technology has spread that fast as the Internet, but we still have the other 60% to work with. Because it's a very big region, so obviously there are all sorts of different regional concerns and local concerns within that region, I presume. Absolutely. And different situations too, cultures, languages and also the socioeconomic impact on different countries in that sense. And what's your impression that the future will be like for the Internet in the Latin American region? We're growing fast, we're doing well, we are catching up. Our prediction is for 2015 we would reach 60% of Internet penetration in Latin America, which is a 50% improved from the current situation. So that's looking good. As I said, we have to work hard with those lagging behind, that's the key. And how do you think you'll be able to achieve that? There are several tools to achieving that. We have to work on several technical issues, we have to work on socioeconomic issues too, and we have to make tools available to everyone in order to spread the Internet. Sebastian Bellagamba, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you very much and it's been a pleasure.