 Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. We're very pleased to be joining the studio today, Mr Akos Bonner, who is the director for International Affairs for the Digital Future Foundation. Akos, welcome to the studio. Thank you, Max. Thank you. Now, I'd like to start off by talking a little bit about what makes connectivity meaningful and why is it important. Innovating together, connectivity is what matters, is the theme event. What's your opinion on that? Our opinion, my opinion on connectivity is I think that's the base for future integration of the world in terms of telecom, in terms of digital skills, in terms of everything which is digital because without future-proof networks there is no solid base for future development. What is the Digital Future Foundation, how does it get involved in the digital economy? We started our work or our roadmap back in 2006 with the former association called the Broadband Forum, Broadband World Forum, and then we switched the scope to a much wider scope to being digital and looking for the future. We try to work on project basis, we try to support organizations, we try to gather partnerships in a much wider like industry 4.0 scope, not just in Hungary, in the EU, out of EU, sometimes it happens that we work with Singapore with Bangkok, and now we open our scope to the Western Balkans digital integrity towards the digital agenda, which is very key subject to the European Commission. From where you stand, what skills do you think individuals will require to stay competitive in the workplace in the future? I think individuals, especially youngsters, they would need to adapt to change and we have to change very fast. That's what we see in the world, that's what we see in our small surroundings, at home, at schools, at various places around the world, that they need to adapt to change very quickly. And what about governments, how can governments best foster digital innovation? I think governments role is, governments role are varying as country by country. Let's say infrastructure developments, they should be more helping with regulation, more helping with support rather than financial support, but support for integrating partnership, and also what governments should do is for sure act and help on digital inclusion and digital education, because that's the key for the future. And what's the situation here locally? Locally the situation is quite well in terms of network quality. Hungary is very keen on and very capable of developing 5G networks with the support of the government, with the support of VU and support of the big network operators as well. And yeah, facing other issues like digital skills and education, the education system is shifting all the wheels towards digital, everything is digital, new school curriculums, new ways of teaching people, and also include youngsters in the elements of this work even from the beginning. So not to miss anything. No, fair enough. I mean this is the second time that IT Telecom World has been here in Budapest. So obviously there is a strong emphasis on the digital economy, on supporting events such as this, and I wanted to find out what do you think the value of this event is for Hungary, but also for the world? I think for Hungary it's not just, of course, probably Hungary is not chosen, Budapest is not chosen, the second time just because of the hospitality that we give to the world, but also the actual work, the actual projects that we do as governments, as private individuals, as startups in the digital framework. But also that's what we do, not just hospitality, and I talked to one of my colleagues in the journalism said, he said, Akos, this is the telecom world, so this is one of the most important events wherever it's held, it's held in Hungary now, so that we should get the grab and we have to have the most out of it in these four days. Well, we wish you the very best, I'm sure you will be getting the most that you can out of it, and we hopefully will catch up with you again some stage in the future. Yes, I'm sure of it. Akos Bondi, thank you very much indeed. Thank you. Thank you, Max.