 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. I'm joined by Xiaolong Fu, Professor and Director of the Technology and Management Development Centre in Oxford. Professor, you were talking at the high-level panel this morning. What was your main message? My main message is that information and the communication technology can play a very important essential role to facilitate the achievement of sustainable development of the goal globally. How can it do that? One of the challenges for the achievement of SDGs is that the local communities and the many low-income countries lack the knowledge, the technology and the capacities to achieve these sustainable development goals. And information technology can play a very important role to facilitate the transfer of technology from the more advanced countries to the less developed countries, from the innovation leaders to the followers in the world. I understand that you've also done some research and field visits to India. So what did you see there in this transfer of knowledge and technology? I participated in a research project in Madhya Pradesh, which is one of the poorest states in India. We worked together with civil society NGOs to develop a mobile phone-enhanced agriculture extension services project. So we used mobile phones to deliver these agricultural extension services to the farmers in the mountainous remote area. And what we have found is that extension services are delivered much faster and much on time, which is very crucial for agricultural production on time. And as a result, the farmers use these extension services much more and they acquire more knowledge about agricultural production and technology. And because of the use of ICT mobile phone, the service is much more affordable, accessible. You mentioned making the service accessible. How accessible is it to women in India? Did you find it? Yeah, what we have found is women in India, their access to information technology are not as equal as those men in the society. I think to empower women to have more resources to use ICT and more skills to use ICT is also one of the important issues. And for example, in our project, we try to design the interface, use symbols and use audios so that people who are illiterate, many women have not been able to acquire education that they need. So they can use these services. So I think one of the important things that we need to address is to be more inclusive to women, to young and the poorest group. This is the same situation we find in Africa. Professor Shaolan Fu, Director of the Technology and Management Development Centre in Oxford, thank you very much for joining us. And please do tune in to the ITU YouTube channel where we will be interviewing experts from the public and private sector this week on how information and communication technology can really help achieve some of the 17 sustainable development goals.