 Welcome to ITU telecom world in Bangkok, Thailand. I have me today a mobler Johnson who is the Minister for ICT in Nigeria. Minister, welcome. Thank you for being with me today. Thank you very much for having me. Very interesting conference we're in talking about embracing changes in the digital world. I'm interested to know what you think of the biggest opportunities in the new digital world particularly in terms of Nigeria. I think for us in Nigeria the opportunities are the opportunity to leapfrog. Really not having to go through what developed economies have gone through particularly with the advent of the mobile phone and what you can do with a mobile phone or a smartphone. The opportunity to diversify our economy as we see the ICT sector growing by 30% and contributing more and more to GDP, creating wealth and creating jobs. There are just so many opportunities that this digital economy presents to countries like Nigeria and I think that we just have to embrace that wholeheartedly and ensure that we leverage those opportunities and actually deliver some real benefits from it. With so many opportunities are there challenges as well? How do you find and how do you know where to head? What direction to head in first? It's tough. It's tough. There are some challenges. First of all the fact that you know digital literacy is a challenge first. So as we grow the digital economy we've got to ensure that more Nigerians actually first of all have access and they have the knowledge and the capability to use these tools. The second challenge that we have is of course like most countries cybercrime. People are, it's what we call digital confidence. First of all you're not that familiar with these tools. Second of all you're afraid that your data is out there, anybody can get hold of it. You're afraid to do transactions on the internet because you think all your financial information is out there. So cybercrime is really one of the biggest threats I see for us really being able to embrace this digital economy. What are you doing in Nigeria that you think is different and enabling you to leapfrog save the developed countries? Well maybe not that different but maybe we're doing it faster than other countries may have done it. First of all we have a clear roadmap and a strategy for what we're going to do with broadband and also with the ICT sector in general. Second of all there's a big thing that we're doing and it's a digital awareness campaign. We're working very hard to build infrastructure to get to all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, broadband, mobile, broadband, fixed wireless and all of that. But the big thing we're doing is a digital awareness campaign which is to let Nigerians know. This statistic we all quote 10% penetration equates to 1.3% GDP increase. That increase comes about when people actually begin to use the internet either to transact business or to build businesses upon and we need to get Nigerians to understand what the benefits of the internet are. And the one thing that we've seen and as I said earlier people know a lot about the the bad things about the internet, the cybercrime, child pornography, all of those things but we need to begin to showcase the good things about the internet so we can deliver this 1.3% increase in GDP. Does coming to events like this help you do that and help you get the information you need to challenge things? It does, it does. I think coming here every year the Nigerian Pavilion just gets bigger and bigger because they're doing much more and more in ICT. But I think coming here first of all is to showcase what we're doing but more importantly is to learn what's going on in the world. We get a chance to speak to some of the leading minds and thought leaders in the ICT sector. We get a chance to look at what other countries are doing and learn from that as well. We get a chance to interact in panel discussions and some of the the panel discussions that are going on and really just hear what's going on in the world and we take all of that back and see how we can use it to realign our policies, realign our thinking and ensure that we just continue to have this really fantastic growth in the ICT sector that we're witnessing today. Well it's great to have you here and thank you again for being with us. Thanks very much. Thank you.