 Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2019 here in Budapest in Hungary. We're very pleased to be joined in the studio by Nisa Furtai-Persel, who's acting secretary general of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization. Nisa, welcome to the studio. Thank you, Max. Now, I'd like to start off by talking about connectivity and what makes connectivity meaningful? Connectivity is the key for digital transformation. With the advent of the digital economy, 5G, connectivity is the key. And I know in the Commonwealth, there's a lot of countries that still employ 2G in rural areas. And as you know, 2G facilitates calling between each other. They can't call overseas. That's how 3G came in, to enable people to call outside of their own country. But then what they found is that the speed was not right for the internet access. So 4G comes in, and now it's 5G. And all these emerging technologies, it's about connectivity. Otherwise, government is unable to move forward digital transformation so that they are able to provide the much-needed public services that they need to do. And with this digital transformation, it's important because it allows governments to provide these public services in a timely manner, much faster way of doing it, so that the whole country benefits. And how is the CTO contributing to Accelerate Connectivity? What CTO does, Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization, what we do is we promote the digital infrastructure. But before that, we promote policies, regulation, legislation. And we do this by dialogue with each country, each member state of the Commonwealth. And more recently, we recognize that every regional and international organization is doing a bit of the digital economy development. So in July 24th, we held a meeting of the heads of regional and international organizations, including the ITU. And it was awesome. We came together and then we realized everyone is doing something. And the key is collaboration. That was the main reason why the CTO called this meeting. It was only a one-day meeting, but it was very, very timely. And how can the ICT industry mitigate climate change? Climate change adaptation is one of my passions. And the industry can help because when disaster strikes or when disasters to do with forestry, you know, with burning and things like that, the key thing that comes that's needed is communication. And this is where the industry comes in to help governments. There's assistance if it's disasters like hurricanes or cyclones. Of course, some can be in category six that demolishes all the telecommunication and mobile towers. And this is where the satellite comes in because a good approach is to have both satellites and terrestrial communication, telecommunication. Let's talk a little bit about gender. What measures and initiatives do you think will bring more women into technology? And should this come from governments or from industry, do you think? It's not only government that does this. It's a combination of both governments, the industry and all the players. And right now there is a lack of skills concerning all the development issues of the digital economy, especially in cybersecurity in London itself, in the UK. They recognize that there is a need for skilled people to manage and to monitor and to work within cybersecurity certs and cert CERT, the critical emergency response teams. And the way to bring women in is through capacity building. That's the key. Promote women to come forward and do the courses. Cisco itself offered through the ITU technical training for women. So in universities, especially in developing countries, there is a women-only class that's provided by Cisco. And in my own country, we still have a women-only class that is provided by Cisco. And ITU was excellent in facilitating this. Finally, what's the value of attending events such as ITU Telecom World, do you think? Oh my gosh, so much value. We meet with our own members who are here. So throughout this week, we have had full days because we're doing bilateral meetings. It's a perfect timing to talk with our members, to tell us what their priority needs are. Because as you know, with emerging technology, things change so quickly with the blink of an eye. It's changed. So this is the value, not only our sector's full member membership, but also our sector members. I see quite a lot of them here. And it's an opportunity for us too because there are other industry players who come to us. They needed to know more about CTO. Before you know it, they want to take part. They want to help CTO promote their digital economy forward and to become a member, a sector member of the CTO. Excellent. Well, thank you very much for joining us and filling us in on where you're up to at the moment. And hopefully we'll catch up with you again very soon. Absolutely. WRC it is. WRC it is. Okay, thanks a lot. Thank you very much.