 Welcome to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where I'm joined in the studio today by Professor El Sayed Azuz who is the Vice President for Radio Spectrum Affairs for the National Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority of Egypt. Professor Azuz, welcome to the studio. Thank you for this invitation and welcome. Now I'd like to start off by talking a little bit about the fact that there's considerable attention being placed on harnessing the power of information and communication technologies and ICTs as an enabler for good, for development, for the benefit of people, families, communities and nations and I wanted to ask you what is your perspective on this? Before I speak about my perspective I want to tell you I'm a board member of the National Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority of Egypt and also I'm a board member of the Media Authority of Egypt and this is a board member for the Space Council of Egypt also and here I'm the Vice Chairman of the Council for 2018 and the Chair for the Extraordinary Session tomorrow maybe I will be the Chair for the next session 2019 for the Council and from my in my perspective for the this issue for the communication the communication is mainly used to ease the life for the people this is the main issue and this is done usually by introducing this ease of life in many directions in the health and education and marketing and transportation in everything and this is done usually starting in Egypt by developing some of the new cities called smart cities and this is by the new capital of Egypt and there is other three we started by four I mean and still there is a set of cities new cities that will be built as smart cities also we look to transfer the current cities to be smart cities also to because we cannot move all the people from the cities that they are live into another or a new cities and this is required mainly to have a good infrastructure reach to every place in Egypt introduce a new technologies a new communication to deliver the new services for the residents or the citizens of Egypt with a high quality with reasonable prices and to be available for everyone and we need to reach it to the unreached people or the unserviced people or non-serviced people or less serviced people and we need to reach it for them by the communication means now this plenipotentiary conference is the first since the world adopted the United Nations sustainable development goals I wanted to ask you in terms of ICTs how are they helping to drive sustainable development in your country yeah we work on the four direction for sustainable which is the the innovation the sustainability is the development and a lot of issues we work in Egypt to this the goals to achieve one of them is as I mentioned that we build the new cities to be smart cities to be sustainable and also the infrastructure we need to in Egypt now we working on in changing all the infrastructure to be on fiber optics with the broadband or what was wide bandwidths to reach for all the new technologies with the which require mainly the the bandwidths and not to put it in a bottleneck for the transmission so we need to it changes the transmission links to be all fiber links and in terms of connecting people to the internet about half the world's people are connected to the internet the other half is not what is Egypt doing to get everyone connected people do a lot of this direction according to the directions from or the directive or the thing is guided by the president of Egypt this is a we have now building a 79 new roads in Egypt to reach each place and these roads will be covered by all means of communication by the infrastructure for fiber optics and the mobile stations and also the public safety to save the life for the people so the is that using these roads moreover for that we also the the new status and the the infrastructure that reach it to each place Egypt in 2019 will launch is the first satellite for communication this is will let the a connection for the internet and for the communication as a telecommunication services will be easy for the borders for the the rural area but not connected easily with the fiber so this is Egypt doing a lot like that and the the 78 routes it's equivalent to 8,000 kilometer reaching but this is new road this is done now we finish approximately more than 35 percent from them we are now continue this year will finish also approximately to reach over 50 percent or something like that from the new routes that reach it to every place in Egypt to reach it to the conserved areas mainly and to cover all the communication on the road to have a safe life for the people so using this new roads finally I just like to say to you give you an opportunity essentially to pass a message on here to participants here at the ITP Potentially Conference but also to our wider audience as well perhaps talking a little bit about as an event to next year I know happening in Shamashshake for example yeah Egypt to do all the appropriate or required actions to reach by the conference double RC 19 to be the successful one done in the ITU from the beginning we build a new convention center especially for that and now it is open and it is there is two conferences already held in this convention center that's the World Radio Communication Conference 2019 being held in Shamashshake yeah this is will be held in this convention as a new convention center and also we introduce a huge capacity for the internet to that place to cover all the requirements for the people joining the double RC I think next week on the Geneva we will present a video related to what's in Shamashshake Convention Center and this is under the also the president of Egypt Mr. Sisi usually guided and usual follow these actions and he is supporting a lot for the telecommunication in Egypt to be the highest sector in Egypt working and they give a lot of support for the this division or the sector and in Egypt also for the the new double RC which is double RC 19 we will do a mechanism for reservation for hotels for transportation for everything inside Shamashshake to let the people enjoy by Shamashshake only not Shamashshake but with a lot of places in Egypt in addition to joining with the double RC also this is what I'm supposing is that it will be happen inshallah and we will reach you to a successful conference by supporting all the people by supporting the ITU mainly because everything is done under the supervision of ITU well professor Aziz thank you very much for joining us in the studio today and we hopefully will catch up with you very soon perhaps in Shamashshake perhaps before that on the council thank you very much for inviting me and it is a pleasure for me thank you thank you thank you