 Hi, my name is Salma Farouk. I work with the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster led by the World Food Programme and I specifically focus on preparedness within the global cluster. Why is the global forum on emergency telecommunications important? For many reasons, but as we have seen from the morning sessions and I think over the coming few days, we are all from many countries coming together and we are facing all sorts of, I guess, the impacts of natural disaster and all of the hazards whether that be from typhoons, tsunami, droughts and the whole plethora and also the ongoing repercussions that those kind of environmental situations have from a social point of view whether that leads to conflicts and other things. So the importance of this forum, that being global forum for people from African countries from Asia, from the Pacific, from the Caribbean, Latin America we're all coming together, we share common problems and challenges but we're discussing through the use of technology in this modern world that we live in today how we can use the power of technology to actually overcome some of the risks that we face and it's not just looking at technology from a hardware and a software point of view but the people and processes point of view because when that all comes together we find the perfect solution to how we're going to deal with it by bringing that together.