 We're here at ITU Telecom World 2012 in Dubai and I'm very pleased to be joined by Alan Horn who is regulator for the Republic of Vanuatu. Alan, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. It's good to be here. I'd like to talk to you about the debates that have been going on here at ITU Telecom World 2012, been very much focusing on the incredible transformation of the ICT sector. What for you are the principal opportunities arising from this transformation? There are very significant opportunities for Vanuatu. Vanuatu consists of 63 islands, only 250,000 people, and ICT and broadband connectivity will help to unify the nation, bring the different communities together and will help to better help the government to govern the country and for people to actually develop, be educated and improve health. So there are significant benefits from ICT and broadband connectivity. What major challenges are you facing in terms of regulations and in terms of the ICT sector of Vanuatu? The biggest concerns we have, and it's something which I've learned very much while I've been to Vanuatu, is that in the western world and the developed countries we've lost many of the fundamental values of life. In Vanuatu, as in many of the rural communities in many countries in the world, particularly the remote islands, the communities live like they have done for many centuries. There's still the basic family values, there's still trust, there's still look after one another, there are no orphanages, there are no old people's homes. They really have got good basic values and we've lost that. By connecting a broadband pipe and connecting these communities to the worldwide web then they become exposed, exposed to some very real dangers of crime, of potential course pornography and damaging those very precious values that the communities have. So here in Vanuatu we want to look at the timing issue and to very much educate people before those pipes are connected, educate the teachers, educate the children to maintain those values but take the benefits that the internet brings, benefits particularly to health. We're not meeting our Millennium Development Goals, particularly with mothers dying in childbirth or babies dying and better health education will help enormously. We introduced broadband into schools and there's been an information revolution. The children are absolutely enthused but better still the teachers are enthused and it really is a great pleasure to see. In agriculture we can increase the efficiency and the effectivities. The farmers now know that one kilogram of coffee on a particular bush a year is not good enough. Their neighbours in other countries are getting four kilograms so the information provided to them starts to give them a choice and really a benchmark of where they're at. We've talked about the challenges, we started to talk a little bit about the opportunities, perhaps you can tell us a little bit more about the opportunities that the ICT sector and its transformations particularly in Vanuatu are bringing. I think one of the things is the smartphones and the tablets because we do have a high level of illiteracy in Vanuatu and again in many other countries so we've got to find very clever ways of making it very easy for individuals to use the applications and we need some very clever ideas maybe not necessarily in writing but pictorially ways of allowing people to easily use these applications through good clever customer premise operators. We're here at ITU Telecom World 2012 it's been a very well attended event and I wanted to find out about your attendance here and what you hope the outcome will be. It's given me the opportunity to meet and do some lobbying in fact. Lobbying of some of the big customers such as Cisco and Intel, Alcatel, some of the big operators and to say hey wake up you know there are a lot of people out in these remote communities. The Broadband Commission has set a particular goal of connectivity by end of 2015 but we need help, we need support. We don't have the economies of scale and we need the support of these big internationals so my message is hey guys come and use some of your corporate social responsibility use some of your funds to help us become connected. Great message and I wish you all the very best of luck and thank you very much indeed for being this. It's been a pleasure thank you