 I mean Qatar has come with a very young youth from around the Middle East, from the Middle East, North Africa, South East of Asia. We are passionate about the potential of the innovation and imagination of what can we do and what can we change in the world. And I must say thank you for Costa Rica and her Excellency Ms. Laura to have us and hosted this Global Youth Summit and we are looking forward to have our message delivered to the United Nations in New York someday. So thank you so much. Thank you Esmael and I'm sure it's your passion for innovation that will actually change the world. Thank you. And I have Eric Sotomora who spent 24 hours in the hackathon creating apps which I'm sure make a big difference. But I'll let him explain. Eric, please explain to us what you did at the hackathon and how you can make a big difference in the world. Okay, bueno, como ya visitaron, yo llamo Eric. I participated which consists of developing an application, a tool, a technological tool under three principle models. So themes, health, education and environment. The idea, it was like 24 hours we had this application that I would try to solve some kind of need in those areas. And well, it's surrounded with all those young people looking for ideas and innovating trying to see how we can use technology and the knowledge that they have. It was a very enriched experience. We have also mentors and other ideas to improve your application. And it was very enriching. And in many ways to be surrounded by people like that. It really gives you good influence in the way of your people. Do you think it gives you motivation? It keeps you trying to move ahead. And all those ideas are coming up to look for solutions. Sometimes it can become something really, something great. Something that is going to really give something great to humanity to help people, the world to improve and to be a better world. Aris has been sponsored by Intel and she has a nice story to tell as well. Bueno, yo tengo represent. I represent Intel, however. In the past I've been in science fairs. So I was the delegate of Costa Rica. And the world's science and technology fair in Atlanta in 2008. And now I'm really pleased to be here representing the youth, representing a company like Intel. And definitely it's committed with the social responsibility. And I really can't say that my expectations about this event were completely extensive. Simply to arrive here and meet so many different people, all the context that you make to see all these people committed with the cause of simply having created a better world. So for some people it would be your topic. But really when you see all these people showing their ideas, showing their points of view which are now the same in Latin America and in Africa, it's really enriching. As a youth, as a young person and as a future person who is going to be in charge of all the decisions that were to be taken tomorrow, something that really is something clear to me is that we can do something. Sometimes we are united in this world that we have problems in society. Is it really hard to correct? But we have this obligation, this commitment. So now we are working on more problems. But really we start from here, from our community, to start here, to start in our homes, in our communities, in our country. So we can also reach those goals that we were talking about here. So I think that is something that we really need to work in this and really learn this here. Winters has been a meeting of minds, of youths from around the world and to see how ICTs can actually become a catalyst for change. And I'll just turn to the UN Secretary General's special envoy, Mr. Ahmed Alandawi. He's in a bit of a hurry. He has to go to conclude the sessions. So please, would you say something? Sure. Thank you very much. And it's a great pleasure to be here. Thank you for your interest in the summit and for providing excellent coverage to the summit. And allow me to start by giving sincere congratulations to the government of Costa Rica and the people of this beautiful country. First, for qualifying to the World Cup. And second, for signing yesterday the presentation, for signing a very important degree about establishing an opening and new carbon market. It's a major milestone toward achieving the goal that is set by Costa Rica in 2021 to become a carbon neutral country. This is a major achievement to the country. So congratulations and also thank you for the warm hospitality you have given us to have a very fruitful discussion and important forum. Of course, with the leadership of the president and Dr. Hamdoun Turei, ITU Secretary General, we were able to bring this many actors and many committed companies in the industry of IT to this meeting, to debate and meet with young people. It's part of the fact that there are many sponsors and partners in this event. But as one of the young participants said, we felt a full ownership of this event. It has been youth led during all the processes, online and offline. We have seen how many 600 participants from around 70 countries around the world participated here physically. But what happened online was a great momentum to crowd source ideas, great ideas. And they were linked and also joined the discussion here. As Secretary-General of Boeing Youth in the United Nations, we have started for the first time ever a feminist strategy in youth issues. It focuses about how we can create more mechanism for youth participation and also about how we can unify our efforts to invest in young people. My presence here is very important for us, all of us at the United Nations, to make sure that as an envoy, I will be a mean facilitator for communications in two ways. One way from the United Nations to young people, but also from young people to the United Nations. I look so much forward for the closing session to hear the outcome document of these great ideas and the debate between young people and to carry this to all the processes that we will be discussing in the United Nations. And the first opportunity will be an open meeting for our interagency network in youth development with youth organization. I'm very impressed by the quality of discussion and also I look forward to the outcome documents. I believe that this will mark a major milestone in our youth work, especially shedding light about how important using ICT as an enabler to achieve the work we want. Post-2015 development agenda will not be achievable without realizing how the world is constantly changing and using ICT as an enabler to realize that work, the work we want. I give my full support for the recommendations that I have seen so far and I look eagerly to see the outcome document and I'm committed as representative of the United Nations Secretary-General here to carry the outcome document and also to work closely with the Secretary-General of ICT, Dr. Hamdo Tureya, and with member states presented here also by the leadership role of Costa Rica to make sure that we continue this discussion in the General Assembly. But as I have said before, it's not only that they will give us this mandate and they will leave. I think this is a joint mandate for us and for young people and I look forward to continue this partnership of just the great ideas that came through the forum. Thank you very much and I expect myself to join the other session. Thank you very much and wish you all the best. Thank you very much. May I then turn to Minister Alejandro Cruz. You have been a great host and please tell us how you can help us move this further. Thank you. I have the honor to be here representing President Cruz and then this is President Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla Miranda and on behalf of the government of this country of the three of Science, Technology and Communications I would like to thank for the support and the participation of the enthusiasm and the participation of so many young people in this real summit of the youth and technology for a better future, for a better tomorrow. Just like the title of the summit says beyond 2015 to arrive to the real human sustainable development. Truly it has been a very intense activity that started on Sunday night and it's about to finish in the next hour. We are very proud that the country was chosen and a doctor to then Secretary General of OAT proposed our precedent to conduct this activity here. Thanks to Dr. today and to all his colleagues, co-operators in the OAT. Thanks to my colleague the Vice Minister Roland Espinosa and all the people in the Vice Ministry of Telecommunications and our government entities that has made this activity possible to have 333 participants from 33 state members of the OAT along with other representatives or entities from the United Nations from the academic sector and universities and from the companies sponsor companies 40 that have been very involved in this activity especially Guadalupe and Intel whom we have 3 young people here representing them thank you, thank you very much effectively to have 68 members in total of all the people who have participated is for Costa Rica is a true member and a commitment the Chinchilla Miranda Administration has determined to do of our country the country by Ancels that naturally naturally Costa Rica is going to bring the support to talent human talent especially young talent to bring this impulse to productivity and also to bring the empowerment of the tools digital and telecommunication for the inclusion of human development we have been able to be witnesses in these three days how young people are worried for better tomorrow how they are seeing the creative future of a constructive way and effectively towards the well-being of future generations technology will play a fundamental role in education and health and also in the well-being of communities thank you very much to all who have made possible this effort possible and I'm happy to see that all the three young people here represented we have two women and a man it's time for technology to have the participation of more women as an objective the government of this country is completely committed thank you National Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations dealing with information and communication technologies we are the oldest UN agency we are over 150 years old but we are actually very young at heart we're dealing with technology we're dealing with young people and young innovators so I'll turn to Dr. Hamadun Turi thank you first of all let me congratulate you again for winning this qualification for the World Cup if you believe maybe our presence here has something to do with that the presence of so many young people and has energized your team and we are very very happy for you it's a great achievement at the same time we were also delighted with the new law that was passed just yesterday the new bill against cyberbullying in this country the government is taking the right steps to ensure that it is criminalizing crime it is taking the measure to protect its children indeed we are very much privileged as ITU to help President Chinjia as a global patron of our Child Online Protection Initiative this program which is a global program is a common denominator for our countries because children is our most precious asset and we are very privileged to have a leadership such as the one of President Laura Chinjia Miranda to lead the global efforts in that and the current summit that we are organizing comes into under that framework two years ago with President Chinjia we decided that's the best way to address the global issues that we are facing for the younger generation is to bring them themselves together to tell us what they want what future they want this is a summit for the youth by the youth and we had a very high expectation but I can tell you the results of this conference are far beyond anything we could imagine we we the adults come out of this summit energize with the synergy the dynamism and the optimism that comes out of this younger generation we are working together in the United Nations are as my younger brother Ahmed Alandawi special envoy for by the United Nations Secretary General and for youth as mentioned we are working as one the United Nations family came together here with all of the agencies to work together in a complementary manner of course my agency is dealing with ICT and youth is the one dealing with this and they are the biggest users of this we are talking about the future of this planet and the future will be led by them and therefore it was simply adequate to bring them together we are privileged that private sector and civil society have also responded as we expected to our call to bring the many youngsters to come here the 600 or so participant that we have here is really a very small number compared to the many other participants we had out there we had about 3,500 youth scattered around 30 countries in what we call 50 different hubs where they were gathering and there were participants remote participants of this conference this whole map over here yes exactly we had a map here showing the amount of activities we had about 14,000 new ideas that came out of the debates here about 16 million tweets that were sent during these three days so it's impressive how the youngsters were able to use the social media to also communicate and have equal participation in this what do we what do we go from here who will take the result of this meeting as an input to the beyond 2015 sustainable development agenda the voice of the youngsters will be heard and will make sure that will put that through the United Nations system from the General Assembly starting on the 22nd of September or 23rd of September to the individual nations and other organizations will make sure that these messages will be passed on there so that will be taken into account not only for the post 2015 for the million development goals but for the future we want and therefore we will be really very much looking forward to working with President Chintia who will present this in her speech in her statement at the General Assembly next week or in 10 days time we also look forward to actually using this summit just as a beginning the conversation will not stop here all these younger young delegates are from now young ambassadors of ITU I will declare them young, our younger ambassadors today and hope that they will take the message out there in their communities in their schools in their homes and in their companies for those who are working to make sure that they continue to feed us back with the messages that are important for the future generation as someone from the elder generation myself I can tell you I have learned a lot this has been one of the most productive conferences for me it gives me the opportunity again to also thank the government and the people of Costa Rica for the very kind hospitality the very nice facilities that were made at our disposal from the conferences places to the stadium to the Olympic committee the ambassador for Costa Rica in Geneva has been a tremendous of tremendous help and the deputy ambassador who was here who is an Olympic champion we are very proud of her we we had a very special relationship with the ministry of science and technology I would like to again thank my friend Alejandro the very strong support your deputy did not have any nice sleep I think he deserves one one day off at least after this summit he was more than that and all the team has worked very hard because I would also like to thank our ITU team that worked very hard I will not list all of them but three persons which are the youngest group Doug, Chris Clark and Jose Maria have done fantastic work and I'm very proud of them so thank you very much again it's been a great experience for me to have had this opportunity to work with president interior alongside her and seeing her efficiency her passion for children and for the future generation and working with people of this country that is a really a rising star you have a beautiful country you've been blessed by nature and you've been blessed by young people with very well organized brains, smart and well educated and I can only say that I'm living this place with a lot of hope a hope for a better future for this planet a better future for humankind a better future for the future generations because the leadership that I've seen the future leaders of this world that I've seen here in this room gave me that confidence when the time comes for them to lead our planet they will do the right job so and there will be time for them and time has come up and we should give them room very soon to move on thank you very much thank you Dr. Turey ladies and gentlemen I have we have a press release that's on your tables both in English and Spanish and now I'll open the floor to questions please identify yourself your agency, thank you no questions yes please my name my name is Joe Cocheverry from Ravi Monumento and my question is which were those results or those expectations the young people had what you achieved and this it's going to be on the report for the UN in the next weeks with Donya Laura Chinchilla on her presence thank you declaration will be important to bring in have made a very strong assessment of the key challenges that the world is facing today and have very clearly stated the priorities that they are setting for themselves and for the world the political leaders to put in place national policies that will help promote the youth and that will enable the voices of the youth to be heard continuously they have made some clear statements about the needs for more education capacity building has been a very strong part of the their statement they focused on three main elements education and environment those three priorities have been put in place there they have also made a very strong statement about keeping making sure that the ICT is how do you call it a separate priority identified in the future we want beyond 2015 so we will make sure that the message that has been passed will be presented as a whole it will be unfair from us if we have to choose any of those messages because they are all relevant and they came from different parts of the world and therefore our job will be to make sure that the whole message is passed we will be meeting with the president of the general assembly Mr. Ambassador John Ash next week to ensure that this document is presented to him together with the president and Ahmed we will three of us will present this report to Mr. Bankimoon the Secretary of the United Nations in the week of 22nd Mr. Alandawi the Special Envoy for Youth and myself will also send this letter to the 193 member states of the United Nations in presenting them this report so that you will have a very wide distribution I will also present this report to all of the sector members of the ITU as you know as my colleague has said ITU is the oldest organization of the United Nations family we are very proud of that being the oldest but being the youngest because we are using the ICE information and communication technology but we have in addition to our 193 member states we have over 700 private companies all of the three main sponsors of this event OREDU, Intel and Ben Clarow are all three Clarow is sector member through its mother company they are all sector members of ITU this is a very strong bond with private sector the only difference between ITU between private sector and government is when it comes to voting we only vote when it comes to electing the Secretary General on all our key issues when it comes to creating a standard managing spectrum making rules for satellites, orbital locations all of those are decided jointly with private sector there is no any difference with member states and therefore I intend to also engage with private sector and challenging them in working together to make sure that this message is very much implemented yes good afternoon Victor Arce from Prensa, Nicaragua the question for minister today in this region what kind of work are you doing with Central American countries to break the connectivity from Guatemala to Panama maybe as a ministry level are you working in any project regional that could break that barrier that Central American people have and for Dr. Thore from the United Nations point of view what projects are you elaborating for Central America we can break that connectivity barrier that we are very below for example Nicaragua where I live no more than 13% of people have access to connectivity so maybe you can tell us what have you been doing with this first thank you very much and then this is a very good question in fact and just two weeks ago we had our regional development conference the preparatory meeting for the regional development conference in Uruguay in Montevideo just two weeks ago that came out with some very strong recommendations on how the region wants to organize itself but let me tell you what we are doing now because that meeting came out with results on what needs to be done from 2015 that will be presented at our next world development conference that will take place in April 2014 now currently we are working in five main areas one setting the right legal and regulatory framework in place and harmonizing it within the region and that's very important there is a very big project going on with the regulatory authorities and SUTEL here the regulator here in Costa Rica is a very active member of that there have also regional organization called Regulatel that is coordinating the efforts of all of the regulatory authorities you have to have a regulation not too heavy but light regulation that's necessary to drive the industry if the regulation is too heavy to cumbersome it will slow down the industry as well but lack of regulation also will kill the industry so we have to have the right balance and in that we have cross-fertilization from all other regions in the world through our global symposium of regulators second very important area where the region is working together there is technical readiness in many areas exchange of best practices in the technical side and the third is capacity building we have some centers of excellence I mean you are from you said you are from you said Honduras our area office is in Honduras which is coordinating the efforts of the centers of excellence in the region to make sure that we have capacity building for policymakers, for technical people and also there are some programs for even consumers that are put in place we do have a number of other plans as come to interconnectivity we also held last year as you may know a summit in Panama city to connect the Americas that came out with a large number of programs and projects that could be done at the regional level and our goal is to make sure that we have a public-private partnership in this and we we did that conference together with Inter-American Bank and other financing institutions to help identify financing for projects in there I can tell you one thing if you have good projects in this region you will have funding for it because this is profit-making industry and we in ITU are very strong advocates of private sector private sector is there to make profits but they will give services, applications you know and in the process they will create jobs as well therefore the role of private sector is very important so we work very very closely together and for your information I myself came straight from private sector to ITU and when I was campaigning I was campaigning with the tickets that I am from private sector I must be good and our members elected me and re-elected me second time and you can also be assured that next year when I finish my job I will go back and again in private sector in working there because I believe that there is a lot to do there so we are creating the legal and regulatory framework for private sector to your work we are also creating the capacity building necessary for it that is Juan de Nicaragua the young person from Nicaragua I would like to present by Mr. Roland Espinosa who has been represented by the government of this country in the commission Central America commission in telecommunications commission that has been very active precisely in the city of Manawa recently and it will have a meeting next week Mr. Roland what kind of work are you doing precisely about this topic what kind of work are you doing at original level to break the barrier of connectivity with the rest of the governments in Central America we have been strengthening and consolidating the mechanism of cooperation technical and mutual assistance under a project of cooperation of Central America thanks to the support of OIT and with the original house in Honduras we have been collaborating and strengthening technical cooperation until November last year we had a seminary of applications and uses of a satellite uses more than 80 people came from 13 countries Central America and from Latin America it was a workshop or an interesting workshop during that week thanks to the OIT and all the specialized staff and the topic of satellites how to bring people specialists from the academic investigation fields there are many topics in which we have been working in September we are organizing a new workshop Central American Shop with OIT and mobile applications and a promotion of health and healthy habits also we have been working on ionizing radiations we did a workshop in Salvador so there are a lot of projects at the level also in public policies to reduce that gap with ministry we are trying not to to be reiterate or create or reinvent things but to learn from that experience and the mistakes that all these countries have been doing also with OIT it is very fundamental to develop this in the area of telecommunications let me just add a few comments on this again the problems of this region are not different from the global issues as you know we have done we have made a great success in connecting people mobile phones is almost available everywhere today we will have by the end of this year 7 billion mobile phones around the world so as many subscriptions as people of course there are still some few people who have not connected but they will come because some of them, some of the 7 billion have more than one SIM card and therefore there are still some people who are not connected we have to work on that so we have won the digital divide in terms of mobile telephony now our next challenge is to avoid a broadband divide and this is why in 2010 I created the broadband commission for digital development who is co-chair by president of Rwanda and Mr. Carlos Lim from Mexico and we have about 60 commissioners to raise the issue of broadband which is our next greatest challenge how do we make sure that everyone has access to very high speed internet this will be the key challenge today globally we have about 30% penetration which is still very low so we want to make sure that we are giving equal opportunity to everyone for that now once infrastructure is made, is put in place our next challenge is content content has to be developed and at national level with local languages local content so that it be useful so that we really enter what we call our next objective is the knowledge society we are today in the information society our ultimate goal is enter the knowledge society it's a society where everyone have access to information but accessing is not enough, you have to use it so everyone can have access can use information can create information those are the four prerequisites for us to enter the knowledge society that we are dreaming of and we are working hard on this and today's conference that is ending is one big step in making sure that we develop that content and we make use of it for the positive side and we also try to minimize the negative size of it one last question perhaps because we have to go for the ladies good afternoon my name is Juan de Galán I am from Guatemala and I represent this official newspaper in my country my question is about the education topic during this summit we talk about the young participants and the participants they talk about technology particularly our tool to develop education particularly the case of Latin America is a special case because this is a challenge for the region that's why, what is that strategy to promote education and under what infrastructure it should be promoted glad to have you here the case of our country when the process of opening of the market of telecommunications there is an universal fund called FONATEL part of the superintendency of communications and this fund in a country that has more than 170 years of pushing forward education through different measures of public policy is going to complement the efforts of the government of this country to not only improve connectivity to improve the speed just like Dr. Dutore said to broadband but also more important to improve the content related to the educational process there are two more objectives in this agreement social digital the president has percent of the country since June of 2011 closing gaps in education pushing intelligent community centers forward 2.0 means we're more additional content and also supporting one of the more important projects of welfare in this country which is through nutrition and centers called SENSINIS will not only be connected but also will receive all the information necessary for a better care for populations for adults to facilitate the work of their mothers yes it is true that we are determining right now in a national goal which is the consolidation of an educational network national probably not only exclusively but probably based in investment multi-millionaire investment and other means so through broadband but not only the students will have the public student education will have a mean of connectivity will be more agile but also the symmetric possibility to add content and to act in not an isolated way point but through a network let's say the concept of system that therefore just to mention a few this are the elements of the public policy Costa Rica 25 years ago created the Umar Dango foundation and has given very good results as a foundation well nonprofit dedicated to intersection of three great factors youth children education and technology today the country has a very important coverage of almost 5000 schools and public schools with products education and the goal is to reach universalization which be to include total inclusion topics as robotics as program and there are many people here in this summit start from elementary school and then they are launched push forward in high school and in colleges one of thank you one of the things that worry us that have been mentioned in the presentation Dr. Ture national party is the protection of children online child and online protection initiative of which President Chinchilla is a sponsor at the world level one of the most important actors private of this public initiative and private in our country is the Ponymore foundation Ponymore not only studies through a project investigation project with our support the characteristics that define the profile of the user of different levels of age and children and youth but also yesterday she inaugurated Technobus as a mobile laboratory of digital technologies to bring precisely to all communities the market the local markets to the front of the school on the front of the soccer field a mean they will be able to teach and sensitize power of parents children teachers about the protection in the use of internet because President Chinchilla is on the way thank you very much Good afternoon my name is Gustavo from El Salvador and I would like to go deeper in the topic that you just talked about what efforts are you making at the Central American level to guarantee the security, online security especially children thank you we are making sure that all countries have a legislation that will protect children online and that's why one of the examples here last year when I came here President Chinchilla signed a decree for cyber security for protecting children and she brought students school children from rural areas to come here in San Jose it was impressive you have to criminalize crime one and then have the technical readiness at national level you have to have national asserts that will help moving that and third we have to do capacity building training the trainers training teachers training the parents and training the students themselves the children themselves those are the three elements the fourth element is very important which is the international collaboration because criminal may be outside of your jurisdiction and therefore you need to work together before the countries and that's why where ITU comes in trying to make sure that we work together in a collaborative manner so we are addressing this issue making sure that we also address the ethical parts of it very difficult but because you know when you are looking for a criminal activity you will come across information that is not of criminal nature how do you keep the privacy of those people second you need to make sure that you are talking the same language because the same crime may not be a crime in different countries depending on their political orientation or religious orientation it may not be crimes and therefore you need to work together in addressing those issues so at the international level we need to talk so that we find at least some of the common denominators when I was addressing the global cybersecurity agenda issues I find it very difficult because of those ideological differences sometimes and ethical differences that's why I came with the child and protection initiative at least this is one common denominator children are an urgency matter it's important for every country a crime against a child is a crime everywhere child pornography is a crime everywhere as opposed to pornography simple pornography will may not be a crime everywhere depending on the religious if it's adults and therefore there are for me this is a low-hanging to have something tangible that will help us find some good results and guess what if we find a good mechanism to collaborate to protect children in the cyber space the same mechanism can work for anything else and therefore at least we will have some tangible results rather than sitting in conference rooms and just talking and talking and doing nothing so these are the real concrete issues and we have champions like President Chinchia who is mentioning this in every major speech she is making out there at the global stage and is helping us move the agenda thank you very much thank you members of the press thank you the panel especially the young youth who are here with us Minister Dr. Turan thank you very much thank you