 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2016 and I'm joined by Win Malambo, Deputy Minister for ICTs, Postal Services and Career Services. Mr Malambo, where is Zimbabwe when we think about moving towards an information society? What sort of progress has Zimbabwe made? Thank you very much, Claire. In the short time you've given me, let me single out major projects. One of the major ones is laying fiber throughout the country, creating fiber loops, so as to create redundancy. We're also linking these fiber cables within the country to the undersea cables, so that you will be able to access with the required international benchmark speeds the information from outside and also transmitting information outside. We are doing that. So you've got access, how are you making sure that rural communities get access? Yes, we are creating or installing what you call communication information centers or CICs in the rural areas. So far we have done so in eight what we call provinces. Our target is to go down to more localised centers which we call districts. We have 52 districts in Zimbabwe. This is what we want to do. A CIC is a one-stop shop for business, small businesses, small to medium businesses in the rural centers where a person can do anything he wants there from accessing internet, doing research, lamination and sending documents, including printing in the rural areas. What about women? Because we know that there's fewer women who actually have access to the internet and actually have access even to broadband. We are doing a lot of clear because we are very mindful of the three pillars of SDGs, that is economic development and social inclusion plus protection of the environment. So pertaining to women, firstly we are concentrating on conscientising them so that they understand they are also included in the mainstream. We run road shows for women. We call the program Girls in ICTs and we also give annual awards for women for those who excel in ICT products and services. And of course there's the youth too trying to use internet and broadband for education. For youth, yes we are doing quite a lot. Aside from connecting about 9,000 schools which is our target before the year end, we are also creating what we call youth innovation where we are providing resources for the youth because they are very, very enterprising. All they require is now. We want to tease the talent in them so that they bring out this devil inside them in terms of innovation. We are doing that as well for youth. You say that there's been a lot of progress towards an information society. What would you say is the one big challenge in the years ahead? The one big challenge is to get all stakeholders on board to understand so that we work as a team. Government, private sector, civil society, international agents and the churches as well. It's such a mammoth task. You need to raise their awareness to the same level so that they cooperate. Some of them consider their little domains as their turf and therefore if you try to tell them to adopt ICTs, they consider that there's interference in their domains. So it's about public-private partnerships? Yes, yes. In fact our government has drafted what we call a blueprint document, Zimbabwe agenda for sustainable economic transformation, Zimacet, where the single-doubt ICTs is the singular sector that is overarching and therefore must be in all the four sectors of the economy according to that blueprint. They've also set an inter-ministerial committee chaired by Foreign Affairs Minister to ensure that SDGs are implemented within the time frame and answered by ITU. Win Malambo, thank you very much for giving us an insight into the progress that Zimbabwe is making to becoming an information society. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you very much Claire. And please do keep on tuning into the ITU YouTube channel where we will have a number of interviews this week with ministers, heads of UN agencies and experts from the private and public sector.