 We are here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and I am pleased to be joined by Mr Yaroslav Ponder who is strategy and policy coordinator for ITU. Thank you for being with us today. Thank you for inviting. We are here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference but we are here in the studio today actually because you have another special event happening, a very important event which is the Wissis high level event in Geneva between the 10th to the 13th of June at ITU headquarters. You can tell us a little bit about it. Yes indeed. This year is a very particular year for the ICT ecosystem. We are celebrating the 10 years anniversary of the World Summit on the Information Society which concluded in 2005 with powerful outcomes, outcomes which changed the world in the sense that all administrations and all the stakeholders engaged in the ICT ecosystem started to communicate, started to understand and started a real collaboration at the global level. Therefore we are very pleased to have 10 years after the conclusion of the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society and to convene the Wissis Plus 10 high level event which will be held in June in Geneva and which aims to attract the presence of the top leaders of the ICT industry to come to Geneva and to endorse the new outcome documents. The new outcome documents will focus on the two very important issues. We will take a stock of this what we achieved during these 10 years in the international collaboration. On the other hand we will agree on the vision what should happen after 2015, what in fact the stakeholders have to aim at achieving in implementing the Wissis related activities. And there is a lot of challenges which we didn't focus on 10 years ago. There is the social media expansion and there is a lot of the developments in the infrastructure where the broadband ubiquity is becoming the new meaning for our simple life and the impact of these technologies on our daily basis and our daily life is really significant. This impact is even greater when we are taking a look at the impact on our businesses and therefore this is the reason why the all governments, all stakeholders, private sector, civil society should be part of this process and this is very important and that we are maintaining the approach called as the multi-stakeholder which is the key for the future. This bottom up approach let us believe that this what we start to create, the vision for beyond 2015 implementation framework is the real response to the real needs and therefore we will be happy to welcome the top leaders of the industry in Geneva in June. Has much been achieved over the last 10 years? There is significant progress in many fields and the connectivity boosted, the mobile revolution just changed the paradigms of the implementation of the different works and there is the significant impact of the economic development on the social aspects of the life and I think it's not to be denied that the ICTs are in the central point of the life of every person and therefore we need to pay even much more attention. And this attention has to be paid also to the voice of the developing countries. This voice has to be heard very well at the all international agremias and this is the reason why the WISUS Plus 10 high level event has such an important role to play and to make sure that those who are still remain unconnected, those who are still are not benefiting from the ICT benefits and that they can in the coming years be the part of the inclusive and multi-stakeholder information society. So this really applies to both developing and to already established and developed countries? Of course. To establish the information society and to transit to the knowledge society it is always important to make sure that we are remaining at the global society level and we are not allowing any kind of the fragmentation of the society. The ICT is very particular and we can only generate much more impact if we are united and we are speaking the one voice and this is the message of the WISUS which we are promoting. Obviously you got a lot of countries already attending and I'm just wondering if you had a special message for any countries who are still thinking about coming, why should they be involved? The representation component of the WISUS is of the key importance to the whole world and this is the reason why since 2006 the World Summit on the Information Forum became a powerful global platform for the cooperation, coordination setting up the partnerships and boosting the real meaning of the ICTs for the development and for the creation of the global ICT ecosystem. This is the reason why the World Summit on the Information Society Forum in this year emerges as the high level event to not only to discuss and coordinate but also to endorse the powerful outcome documents and this is the reason why as in six months within the framework of the multi-stakeholder preparatory platform we are joining the forces with a lot of stakeholders from the governments, private sectors, civil societies and academia and the international organizations and jointly we are working on the vision for the implementation of the WISUS beyond 2015. This is the reason why we are calling all stakeholders to be part of this preparatory process and to not to miss the opportunity and to advocate for this what is essential for the next decade. Of course the response is great but we are still not in the finalization phase we are still having the one month of the good multi-stakeholder bottom up consensus building on the outcome documents and this is the time to act and to make sure the representatives of those stakeholders are joining this process at the meeting just in one week time from 14 to 17 April in Geneva and then possibly in the last meeting just one week prior to high level event from 28 to 31 of May in Geneva as well. So we are calling all stakeholders active in the ICT ecosystem to be part of this important consensus building process and we hope that this bottom up approach will really bring the very tangible results and impact for the next decade. Well we look forward to catching up with you in Geneva and thank you very much for being in the studio today. Thank you very much. And thank you for watching. If you want any more details on the WISUS high level event please go to the ITU website. Thank you.