 Thanks for joining us at WSIS Forum 2019 where we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the event and throughout the years connectivity and bringing more people online has always been at the core of discussions here and to discuss it I am joined by Mr. Haruo Okamura. You are president of Global Plan Incorporated. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you Charlotte I'm very delighted to be here and you were here at WSIS Forum 2019 to present your solution to bring broadband to isolated rural communities and you have a sample haven't you? Tell us more about it. Yeah that solution has been standardized that ITUT already published ITUT L.1700 and L.110 and L.163. Those three recommendations identifies the solution unprecedentedly I think identifies the requirement for the solution most affordable and it turns the importance order from originally you have been working on the reliability important and affordability second but the solution that I have proposed and the standardized at ITUT, SC15 mainly is the first priority is affordability and reliability is the second most important attribute that could bring us make us easier to penetrate broadband into rural areas where economical difficulty is still there and the key is the optical fiber cable that I have here based on the submarine cable technologies as you know submarine cable suffers from a lot of high pressure water pressure down to 8,000 meters depths of the sea but this portion this is a welded stainless steel pipe very completely welded razor welded pipe this is based on the submarine cable technology and within this pipe you have an optical fiber in here this is optical fiber up to 48 quarts that brings easy easily you know reduces the construction cost of this cable because this is strong enough so that even monkey cannot break this cable so you can put the cable on the surface of the ground simply that's it this allows the most affordable solution implementation this is the world's first I think solution that expressly targeting to closing the digital divide okay and it's not just a prototype is it because you have been able to actually use it for real in real life this is this is the real cable this is in fact have been used in Japan in the last 20 years for about 20,000 kilometers already been commercially used but never came out of Japan so far but I just proposed to take this cable to close the digital divide because these are digital divide may be a very big headache in the future if you do not do anything about closing the digital divide you will suffer from pandemic or refugees or everything you know hotbed for the headaches so this is I'm proud to say that this is the solution that I think hopefully could do widely and quickly close the digital divide by using this solution absolutely so is that why it was important for you to attend the firm to meet other people maybe other stakeholders who can help you implement this solution on a large scale yeah although this is a affordable solution but still needs money if to implement this solution into remote areas rural areas in developing countries where economical situation is difficult you need money but I am my plan is to upload this kind of solution in Alibaba or Amazon site and local people community can directly purchase this cable and implement this cable in the DIY basis do it yourself yourself basis that is the most affordable way to implement optical fiber cable based on the knowledge and the wisdoms of the local people local society in the best fit way to the local terrain difficult terrain so basically this is so that this implementation demands some money from a pocket from the local people this includes DIY but of course there are a lot of grants currently I am using a grant from APT Asia Pacific telecommunity that is now working today on west part of Nepal Daru municipality I've been to Daru municipality just two weeks ago to implement this cable myself and together with the local people teams so as such it is working very good after the publication of the ITU standards that is the third one latest one was published in November last year and I should say that the Eldot 163 is as of today assigned as the most popular recommendation of ITU well it's a very interesting solution thank you very much for sharing it with us thank you