 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. And I'm delighted to be joined by Dr. Ibrahim Alderbal, who's the general coordinator of the Khalifa Empowerment Programme for Students. And it's called Aqda. So tell me, my Arabic is not very good. What does Aqda mean? Actually, maybe it is your mistake that your Arabic is not good. Aqda doesn't mean an Arabic, I can't. With this program, Khalifa Empowerment Programme, actually it is a program in cooperation, in coordination with more than 50 partners in UAE. So all of us, we decided to launch a program or new initiative, we call it Aqda. It means I can't. Just try to passionate the student to do a positive behavior, positive things. So to positively engage with information communication technology? In everything. Actually when we go back to the Aqda program, it is not only focusing on the technology. We have four pillars. It is life skill education, life skill crime prevention, health and safety and national identity. So, for example, here today we are in Western because we are focusing on the crime prevention. One of the crime prevention we are focusing on with the IT technology. And how much concern is there in the United Arab Emirates about the misuse of social media? Actually, UAE is part of the world. When we say it is the global challenges. Actually we have now for social media. But if you go back to the statistic, UAE more than 173% of the people they have using the mobile phone. It means for any single one, he has two mobile. This makes very big challenges. If we go a little bit decided about the technology, now when you said ten years back, the internet challenges was because it was a PC, then it shifted to the laptop. Now our mobile phone is internet. There is no control. Maybe further after five years as the professional says we are coming to the uncontrollable explosion of the technology. It means we have to make our new generation ready for the new challenges coming up. And what are some of these challenges when you talk about the uncontrollable explosion of the internet? Actually to be honest as a parent, maybe ten years back, very frankly, the challenges was misusing about the sexual sites, websites, some sites, the sexual sites for example. Now the ISIS is involved for example. Terrorism involved in this one. The traffic accidents involved the health issues. For example now what we call it the professional disease. For example if they are using this technology in the wrong way, maybe they have some diseases coming up. So many challenges are coming up. And so what is your main message to students that they use this technology correctly and that they don't misuse it? Actually myself and we believe the students of today are leaders of tomorrow. So the message we try to make them ready for the coming future, ready for the coming challenges is their lives. So they have, they should be ready. We give them some tools to be empowerment. This is the concept of Khalifa Empowerment Program. It says Agdar. This is the meaning, the main concept of Agdar. It means it is your life. Please take care of your life. One of taking care of your life is to be ready with the challenges. One of the challenges is facing the technology. And it's a 360 program so it's not just students that are part of this program. Actually when we say 360, the other word is what is the un360. The 360 means to make our new generation ready. It means we have to work for the students, parents, our partners, the community, the teachers. For example we train more than 15,000 teachers how to deal. We found most of the teachers, this is not in UAE globally, they are not enough professional to deal with the new technology. So that we train more than 15,000 teachers. We train more, we reach around 70,000 students to deal. When we say the students, the generation, in which age we have to go to the new students. In Khalifa program we go from age 6 till age 25. But for each age it's different message. We have students, we have local students, we have non-local students. We have to respect that different culture. So it's actually this very comprehensive program. And the tools we are using is not only the presentations, actually we have different, different tools. It could be games. Now for example we have games in Apple stores. We have four games already we launch it. More than 12 million individuals they download our games on Apple stores. It could be sometimes brochures. We have different brochures in Arabic and English. We could be delivered. We have a national program, what we call it a national curriculum. This is, I can't say, I'm guaranteed this is the first one in Arab country. I doubt maybe in the global world because actually we focus on four pillars. We believe that everything is integrated with each other. For example when you come to students and say be aware of the technology without working on the self-esteem of the student, life skill of the students. I cannot work alone. When we say be careful about the ISIS. I have to make self-confidence to deal with the peer pressure. Now we have E peer pressure. So I have to make my students ready for that. Dr Ibrahim Aldebal, thank you very much for joining us and telling us about the extremely comprehensive AgDAR program. And do join us on the ITU YouTube channel for more interviews with ministers, regulators, experts on information and communication technology here at the WISIS Forum.