 Welcome to WTDC 17 here in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I got the great pleasure to be joining the studio today by Mr. Andrews Ansep, who is Vice President of the European Commission. Mr. Ansep, thank you for joining us. Thank you very much for inviting me. Now, I'd like to start off by talking about the theme of this conference, WTDC 17. Is ICTs for SDGs? In what concrete ways are countries in the European region integrating ICTs to attain sustainable development? We know that the European Union is biggest donator when talking about the development date, when talking about just about EU budget. Then we invested 32 billion years within the last five years in development projects, when talking also about member states, then even 82 billion years, but a very small part, just 500 million years is going into digital, and it's not enough. We know that those digital solutions, they can be really efficient solutions, not only in developing countries, but also in the European Union. For example, just recently in Sweden they implemented the e-procurement system, and according to them, they were able to save even 20% of their spending. In some African countries, in Asian countries, it's really possible to make some miracles with those investments into digital. In India, they gave digital identities to their citizens, and in this way, they were able to cut to those middlemen when paying state allowances to their citizens, and according to their ministers, they were able to save 8 billion US dollars a year, so huge amounts of money. We have to pay more attention on digital developments in African countries. In the European Union, we decided already that in every development project, there has to be also a digital component. We created a digital for development program, and I myself, I would like to support those digital developments also in African countries, because digital public services, for example, they are always more efficient, they are more transparent, not everybody will be happy, corrupted people will be not so much happy about this, and those digital public services, they are always more inclusive. If people, they are more better informed, then they would like to take part in this decision making process also. So it's our moral duty to help African people, but now we don't have just to help, but we have to cooperate, because in many areas, some African countries, they are really highly developed, and we can copy their experience, for example, in Europe. Talking about cooperation, collaboration, how best should ITU and the European Union work together in your opinion? We are working closely together, and when talking about digital developments, then the basis for those developments is, of course, connectivity, for connectivity. Quite often, we have to solve issues connected with the spectrum, and our major part in those issues is, of course, ITU, and I would like to say our cooperation in this field was really successful. Now I'm looking to have deeper cooperation when trying to support digital developments in developing countries. Finally, very briefly, what do you hope will come from this conference? I hope more and more people will understand that it's not enough to provide development aid only to deal with survival issues, with drinking water, food, roads, democracy. Of course, this is needed, but we have to invest also into digital in developing countries. Andrew, thank you very much indeed. Thank you, you're welcome.