 We are here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and I'm very pleased to be joined by Dr Amir Bidewi, who is a board member of the National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt and is also Professor at Cairo University. Dr Bidewi, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. It's my pleasure. I'd like to start off by asking you about this conference, the World Telecommunication Development Conference. It's once every four years. Why is this conference important? Well, this conference is important because we live in a rapidly evolving world and that world we have technology is increasingly effective and it's increasingly shaping that world. And because of the difference in economic standards in different countries, that technology is starting to create additional divide, a gap between the haves and have-nots. And the ITU has realized this and started a lot of developing programs to try to narrow that gap. Narrowing that gap is extremely important for world peace and stability. And accordingly, this conference happens every four years where it discusses current issues that would affect this digital divide and make sure that it initializes programs or initiatives that would help the world and especially the developing world in catching up with the developed world in that respect. What are some of the regional concerns for you regarding broadband and sustainable development? Egypt has developed a national broadband plan and it was announced back in November 2011 and it was done by the NTA. And that plan was very comprehensive and looked at all the aspects of introducing broadband to Egypt with very specific targets to get broadband to all citizens, wherever they are in the country of Egypt. One of the major concerns is the infrastructure. Infrastructure that is required to carry all this expected huge traffic coming from all different parts of Egypt and going basically on the internet, which will provide connectivity between Egypt and the world. So that's one major issue. How are we going to develop the infrastructure? What's the best way, the technologies that are going to be used? So that's one issue. Another concern that has been growing everywhere is the cyber security. Cyber security is a real concern right now and it's very important to make sure that cyber crime is fought at all levels. And Egypt has been active in that and has established a cert in Egypt since 2009 and has been active and has been quite successful in stopping some of these crimes. But the cyber security can really hamper the development of the broadband in any country. That enabling environment definitely includes digital content development and without digital content broadband is just like a big highway without cars. So if you don't have digital content then we end up not using broadband and we end up investing a lot of money with no return. That's one example. The enabling environment also is to provide training for people and to develop services like government services. We are looking for broadband in Egypt and I think many countries are looking for broadband for two main and very important applications. First is education. I personally believe that education currently has to be transformed from the old ways of having paper books into new ways where students would use ePads to access all the knowledge that they need, all the curricula that's set for them and provide sort of interactive education that would get them to understand and change the way they're educated from being just information goblers to creative thinkers. That's very important. The other area is also eHealth. In most developing countries they lack the presence of experienced physicians and modern technology based on broadband can provide remote medicine. You can have an expert physician who can help the less expert physicians in remote areas or even nurses to help the patients and probably identify and recognize the symptoms of certain diseases. I believe these are two areas that developing countries are in need of and that will help really improve the quality of life for all citizens everywhere. And finally, what outcomes would you like to see from this conference? I think outcomes such as, you know, I know that there are some resolutions and some papers and questions asked about, you know, the different subjects like cybersecurity, like the infrastructure, how to promote infrastructure, capacity building, we need to do capacity building for IT and telecommunication technologies and we have to have inclusion for all citizens. It's very important that the whole society gets involved. It's very dangerous to have separation within the same society where people get into the digital world and people who are outside it. And that would increase the social problems by increasing the gap between the rich and poor in this case. We are looking for resolutions that would help least developed countries and countries in special need, like landlocked countries, on how they can get to have their basic needs of telecom and how they can be connected to the outside world. Dr Bedevi, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Okay, thank you. And thank you for watching too.